F. Scott Barker's Microsoft® Access 2000 Power Programming

Chapter 6. INTRODUCING ACTIVEX DATA OBJECTS

IN THIS CHAPTER

• LOOKING AT THE OBJECT MODELS

• REFERENCING THE TYPE LIBRARIES

• OPENING A CONNECTION TO A DATABASE

• CREATING A RECORDSET WITH ADO

• WORKING WITH QUERIES USING ADO

• WORKING WITH TABLES USING ADO

ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) is Microsoft's latest data-access method that's now the standard for most Office, Web, and Visual Basic environments. Products that ship ADO in the box include

• Microsoft Office 2000

• Visual Studio 6.0 (including all the languages in the box)

• SQL Server 7.0

Data Access Objects (DAO), the previous standard, was used throughout Office and Visual Basic, but wasn't designed to be used with Web environments such as Visual InterDev and other data servers. Currently, there are no plans to update ...