getting started on ADO

[Ed_CompSci]

Is ADO all the facets of ActiveX? If not, what other divisions of ActiveX are there?

[Cakkie]

ADO is just a way to retrieve data from several datasources, and can be accessed via ActiveX. This does not mean ADO is ActiveX. ActiveX enabled (as they might call it), is when a component exposes methods and/or properties, which can be used from inside programs or other components. This looks a lot on OO-programming (object oriented), and in some way it is. But because it is not complete OO, it is called 'component based'-programming.

So the only way that ADO is ActiveX, is that is is ActiveX enabled, allowing us to use it via components in VB, in the same (sort of) way that it allows us to use Access and Excel from VB.

Tom Cannaerts
slisse@planetinternet.be

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning -- Rich Cook

[Ed_CompSci]

I greatly appreciate your response and if yhou don't mind I will notate some or all of your reply into my ADO book.

[Cakkie]

ADO Book, nice, let me know when it is finished, and if you need a reviewer for the book, just let me know.

Tom Cannaerts
slisse@planetinternet.be

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning -- Rich Cook

[Ed_CompSci]

Do not misunderstand, it is not MY book, only one I am reading. I was just reading about RDS and excerpting also to the COM/ATL book that I have on the subject. Any experience in this area?