“Book Descriptions: How can an OLEDB Provider be an ODBC Driver at the same time?As it turns out the Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server can in fact do both jobs. When I first saw that the Visual Studio 2022 was available for download, I was a bit skeptical. After all, it was just another instance of Visual Studio 2019 with a couple of minor improvements thrown in to bump the number up to make it sound like something new and improved. Was I wrong! Visual Studio 2022 is a huge improvement over 2019. It responds quicker, creates projects faster and gets you to where you can start programming in a blink of an eye.With that said, this book is about using the Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server. There are two ways to use this provider\driver.As a provider with the expected provider syntax:Provider=MSOLEDBSQL;Data Source=WIN-U1D8NGFVABF;Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=AdventureWorks2019;As a driver with the expected ODBC driver syntax:Provider=MSOLEDBSQL; Server=WIN-U1D8NGFVABF; Database=AdventureWorks2019; Trusted_Connection=yes;"When you are working with ODBC and SQL Server for example, Data Source is replaced with Server, Integrated Security is replaced with Trusted_Connection and Initial Catalog is replaced with Data Source.In-other-words, while words change, their purpose is still the same.Bear in mind, too, these are provider and driver specific requirements.If I weren’t trying to connect to SQL Server and was using the Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb) for example, my connection string – in simplest terms – would look like this:Driver=; dbq=C:\nwind.mdb;Any, I think you’re getting the idea here.The purpose of this book is to use the Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server, acquire a list of Tables and Views that can be converted so that the information can create empty RDLC Report Files to be populated by acceptable data resources used by the RDLC Report ViewerWhich means, we now have to create a working environment which includes a project solution, install the RDLC Report Viewer and start building a user interface that is designed specifically to create dynamically driven custom reports.All was working well in Visual Studio 2022 until I tried adding the Report Viewer and received some cryptic error. Instead of trying to figure it out, I simply switched back to Visual Studio 2019 and the code worked perfectly fine. Since I want to assure that we’re able to create RDLC Reports, I figured it was time to focus on that intent. Read more” DRIVE
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