I finally found the problem in case anyone was or will be interested. It seems that individual files under the project can be set not to inherit from the project properties. For some reason, when I convert my VS6 projects to VS.NET, all cpp files got set to NOT inherit from the project. Go figure.

Take a look at the ATL OLEDB data producer classes1. Many grids support OLEDB as well if I'm not mistaken.. Just fire up an ATL project, and add an OLEDB data producer class using the ATL wizard, and go on from there. :) 1 I'm not sure this is the correct name. I'm 100 miles from home, so I can't lookup the name right now. But just look at the ATL wizards and you'll know it when you see it. -- Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face.