ESE - is there any more convenient way to use it?

Hello,
I'm new with ESE API.
I have this attached sample program that I downloaded from somewhere.

It seems quite complicated to do even simple things like searching with more than one condition (i.e select * from TABLE where COL1='bla' and COL2 like '123%').

Can you direct me to any wrap classes and/or tutorial and/or more information about it?
I already read MSDN. It gave me basic understanding about ESE, but it still hard to start using it.

Thank you,
[522 byte] By [infrared] at [2007-11-20 10:59:46]