Applications should be able to provide a first class experience when browsing available ODBC data sources. In addition to obtaining name and description, applications should be able to retrieve additional information such as a pointer to an icon, a pointer to a help file, etc. without the need to load the driver.
What is the full set of information an application needs when browsing data sources?
How does the application get this information; do they read it directly from the registry? SQLDrivers supports driver-specific attributes returned as an attribute string; should we just use that and define some common attributes?
Applications should be able to provide a first class experience when browsing available ODBC data sources. In addition to obtaining name and description, applications should be able to retrieve additional information such as a pointer to an icon, a pointer to a help file, etc. without the need to load the driver.
What is the full set of information an application needs when browsing data sources?
How does the application get this information; do they read it directly from the registry? SQLDrivers supports driver-specific attributes returned as an attribute string; should we just use that and define some common attributes?