Building OLE DB Conformance Tests

Note

To obtain the conformance tests, you must install the standalone MDAC 2.8 SP1 SDK. The conformance tests are not included with Windows DAC in Windows Vista.

You can use your preferred Microsoft development environment ? Visual Basic, Visual Studio, or Visual J++ ? to build conformance tests. The MDAC SDK contains a set of Level 0 conformance tests to test your providers with broad test coverage support. The QuikTest test module is also included. You can generate initialization files using the TableDump utility to create and obtain the provider-required information necessary to run your tests for the desired level of conformance. Use the Local Test Manager (LTM) tool to run your conformance tests.

To build an OLE DB conformance test

1. Build the PrivLib and the TableDump.

2. Generate the initialization files.

3. Establish your provider requirements.

4. Establish your data requirements.

5. Use the TableDump Utility with LTM to generate provider information.

6. Use LTM to modify, run, and debug the test.

This topic is a part of:

• Conformance Testing in OLE DB

This section contains the following topics:

• OLE DB Level 0 Conformance Tests

• Files Used for Conformance Testing

• Building a Tool (TableDump or Privlib) or Test

• Generating Initialization Files Using the TableDump Utility

• Provider Requirements

• Data Requirements

• Using the TableDump Utility with Local Test Manager

• Format of the .ini File