After spending months struggling with the very confusing Microsoft provided online documentation for OLEDB consumer classes, this software was a welcome sight. As I am sure you have noticed there are very few OLEDB code examples and books dedicated to the OLE DB consumer classes. Typically OLE DB coverage is the exclusive domain of a single chapter in an introductory COM book.

The OleDBPro template library provides a very good foundation to the OLE DB consumer classes. It assumes little knowledge of COM and provides a detailed analysis of the guts of OLE DB. The author has plenty of real world experience under his belt to back up this template library. The author also provides an interesting set of extensions, example code, and documentation to the default OLE DB consumer classes available for download through a web site. You may not need all of the extensions but they do provide a very good base for other possible enhancements to the library as well as a good place to test your knowledge of the OLEDB consumer concepts.

OleDBPro is well worth the cash, especially if you have had OLE DB thrust upon you and are in a "learn and burn" situation.

John Montoya
Senior Programmer
Web Media Interactive

After having gone through numerous OLE DB demos from microsoft and seeing how incredibly many lines of code were needed to perform simple database tasks, making the code look like the Amazon jungle, I was relieved to find OLEDBPro. In OLEDBPro you have all that stuff elegantly hidden under the hood without loosing the performance you seek by using OLE DB. OLEDBPro comes with documentation and numerous demos. On top of that the service is excellent and all my questions via email have been answered very quickly.
I highly recommend OLEDBPro for easy OLE DB database programming.

Jorundur Matthiasson
Database designer and programmer