Re: Delphi for Obsolete.NET - Microsoft's Plans Realised?

Arthur Hoornweg wrote:

wasn't the dll interface, that dbExpress uses for MSSQL on Windows,
declared obsolete as well by MS?

Do you mean dbexpmss.dll? If so, that's the Borland provided dbExpress
driver for MSSQL. It's not a "dll interface" for MSSQL.

If you mean SQLOLEDB.DLL, then heck no. OLEDB is still the preferred
method to connect to MS SQL Server from the Win32 world. Even ADO.NET
has an OLEDB provider, although there's a native MS SQL provider that
is preferred, as you bypass the extra layer of OLEDB.

OLEDB is fully supported in SQL Server 2005. I suspect it'll be fully
supported in at least the next two generations of SQL Server. I
haven't even heard of dropping support for ODBC, and that's a
technology that deserves to be dropped.

--
Jon Robertson
Borland Certified Advanced Delphi 7 Developer
MedEvolve, Inc
http://www.medevolve.com
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