Programming Considerations

This section briefly discusses a number of topics related to writing ODBC applications and drivers.

This section contains the following topics.

• Multithreading

• Alignment

• Unicode

• Translation DLLs

• Diagnostic Tools

• Visual Studio Analyzer

• Driver-Specific Data Types, Descriptor Types, Information Types, Diagnostic Types, and Attributes

• Backward Compatibility and Standards Compliance

• ODBC in Windows