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License and Warranty Addendum... iv

The software you are acquiring has been specially configured to run on a network, and consequently Interact Commerce Corporation grants to you the right to use the enclosed Software on a computer network provided that for each and every concurrent user on the network, you have acquired and dedicated one licensed copy of the software. iv

What’s Included. 5

“How-Do-I” support 7

Consulting Services. 7

Programming Services. 8

Conventions used in this section. 17

Syntax conventions. 17

Terminology. 18

Parameter types. 18

Special data types. 19

Date and time formats. 19

Phone formats. 20

Overview of the ACT! OLE Database Object 21

How can developers use an ACT! OLE Database Object?. 21

How does the OLE Database Object affect the ACT! user interface?. 21

Is the OLE Database Object a database tool for developing applications that can access ACT! data? 21

Features and limitations of the ACT! OLE Database Object