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Extensible Storage Engine

Extensible Storage Engine (ESE) is the (low-level) embeddable database engine] native to Windows.

ESE uses ISAM technology.

ESE was formerly known as JET blue.

ESE is used in a variaty of Microsoft products:

Microsoft Exchange Server
Active Directory
Windows Search
File Replication Service
Security Configuration Editor
Certificate Services
Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
… and others …

See also

links

Reference (for C programmers).

I found the necessary esent.h file under %UniversalCRTSdkDir%\Include\%UCRTVersion%\um (probably after installing the Windows SDK).

ManagedEsent provides managed access to esent.dll

Emmet Gray has the API declarations for Visual Basic for Applications.