Building and Running the ADO Minimal Tests

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The three tests described in the following table are available for testing your consumers and providers in ADO.

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.

ADO test

Description

Level 0 Conformance Tests

Mapping ADO properties and methods to OLE DB interfaces provides the basis for grouping ADO properties and methods into the conformance levels.

Before running ADO Level 0 conformance tests, you must manually modify the .ini file generated by TableDump as shown in the .ini File Example. Modify the SELECT_EMPTYROWSET line under [QUERY] by adding a query that will yield no results. For example:

{SELECT_EMPTYROWSET("select * from mytable where 1=2")}

If you do not modify this line, end-of-file and beginning-of-file tests will fail.

Update Conformance Tests

These tests are provided to confirm that ADO Update statements will work with compliant updatable providers.

Transaction Conformance Tests

These tests are provided to confirm that ADO Transaction statements will work with compliant providers that support transactions.