Access Provider Documentation?

Hello,

I am wondering where I can find in-depth documentation on the .NET Access Provider (including the COM extensions).

I am just starting to play around with this layer and am intrigued by it. We have been using ODBC (Oracle Instant Client) and Oracle MDAC access and they work fine, but I like the simplicity of the .NET Access Provider and built-in niceties such as error handling -- no need to install an ODBC client or MDAC components, just the Ifs.Fnd DLLs (which I embed in our C# application).

I would also like to know how to do more with the COM extensions, as we still integrate with Visual Foxpro applications. Visual Foxpro can create COM objects, etc. and that might let us do more from there.

I understand Access Providers are on the way out and that web-based programming and RESTful API calls are the way of the future. But I still want to understand all of our client-side programming options.

Thanks,

Joe Kaufman