>>>Is there a way, within VFP, to enumerate installed OLEDB providers on a workstation?
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>>An MSKB article implies you need to query the registry, that's the approach I'll take unless someone has a better idea:
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>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q280739
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>That would be the way to do it, unless you find some ready-made code. Any entry under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID that has a key of OLEDB_SERVICES would represent an OLEDB provider. Once there, the sub-key named "OLE DB Provider" will have the description. HTH

On further digging it looks like OLEDB already has sophisticated enumeration support:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/oledb/htm/oledbenumerating_data_source_objects_and_enumerators.asp

It even has an example on how to enumerate providers; unhappily it's in C++. I have no idea if this functionality is available from VFP.