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title: "Programming Considerations | Microsoft Docs"
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# Programming Considerations
This section briefly discusses a number of topics related to writing ODBC applications and drivers.  
  
 This section contains the following topics.  
  
-   [Multithreading](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/multithreading.md)  
  
-   [Alignment](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/alignment.md)  
  
-   [Unicode](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/unicode.md)  
  
-   [Translation DLLs](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/translation-dlls.md)  
  
-   [Diagnostic Tools](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/diagnostic-tools.md)  
  
-   [Visual Studio Analyzer](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/visual-studio-analyzer.md)  
  
-   [Driver-Specific Data Types, Descriptor Types, Information Types, Diagnostic Types, and Attributes](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/driver-specific-data-types-descriptor-information-diagnostic.md)  
  
-   [Backward Compatibility and Standards Compliance](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/backward-compatibility-and-standards-compliance.md)  
  
-   [ODBC in Windows](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/odbc-in-windows.md)