[Oledb-dev] Provider question

[Shachar Shemesh]

Arvo wrote:

>Hello Shachar,
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>>And you didn't say anything? How is free software supposed to improve if
>>people keep their suggestions to themselves?
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>Very easy: I've no experience with ATL neither  OLEDB. I just tried make driver compile under VS.NET - I made two ugly hacks to achieve that, no more. I'd no idea, what such hacks do break, especially this ATL_CATEGORY thing. Seeing somewhat similar workarounds, made by another person, I can be sure that I was on the right way.
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Even if you think your changes are an ugly hack, it's better to share
them. As you can see, they didn't go into the code as is, but me being
aware of them did cause them to go in, something that didn't happen before.

>You're always talking about code quality, btw :)
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Is that something that intimidates? This is not an idle question - I
want to know whether you feel I have been holding back the community
development, and whether there is anything I could do better.

>This is the "The one microsoft way" or how they call that themselves.
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Actually, that's their mail address:
1 microsoft way, Redmond, WA, 98052-6399

See http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=mscom if you don't
believe me. I find it very telling.

>Well, my fault - of course this depends on ATL version (although for Visual Studio this doesn't matter so much - ATL and VS versions are tightly related).
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You never know. They released "WTL" as open source, after all.

>Will check out soon, thanks for corrections!
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Thanks. Let me know. If possible, I want the code to compile, out of the
box, on as many platforms as possible.


          Shachar