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Conference abbott::visual_basic

Title:Microsoft Visual Basic
Moderator:TAMARA::DFEDOR::fedor
Created:Thu May 02 1991
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2565
Total number of notes:10453

2554.0. "No ADO on VB5 CD?" by USDEV1::JBONIN (PSG/IW Consulting Services) Thu May 08 1997 16:44

    I heard that the ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), which is the successor to
    DAO and RDO has "missed" the release, and didn't get shipped with the
    CD. Is that true? Is the ADO kit available separately?
    
    Thanks
    
    John
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2554.1EVTSG8::TOWERSFri May 09 1997 05:106
    That's right, there are new versions of DAO and RDO but no ADO in VB5.
    I've also not seen any sign of ADO being released yet, but then I'm in
    Europe. For marketing reasons I'd expect it to be a while.
    
    Cheers,
    Brian
2554.2it's available in other products nowUSDEV1::JBONINPSG/IW Consulting ServicesFri May 09 1997 09:578
    Yes, ADO has been released as part of IIS V3 Active Server Pages. I was
    told that it would be in V5 months ago by Microsoft, and that it was
    the successor to DAO and RDO. Now yesterday, I was told by someone
    that is very close to Microsoft development (works for a company that
    is a partner to Microsoft) that it would be available from the VB
    home page as a plug-in.
    
    John
2554.3almost thereUSDEV1::JBONINPSG/IW Consulting ServicesFri May 09 1997 14:4722
    Well, I was able to find the separate ActiveX Data Objects 1.0 Library
    as part of the OLE DB SDK V1.1 which comes with Visual Studio 97 as
    part of Visual C++ V5.0. 
    
    The Microsoft OLE DB ActiveX Data Objects 1.0 Library is named msado10.dll.
    I tried adding the library component into the toolbox, but it get's an
    error. I right-click on the toolbox, get into Components, and get to the
    Controls tab, there is a long list mixed of .OCX and .DLL. Since it's not
    listed, I Browse and double-click the file msado10.dll. It adds the file 
    to the list with the checkbox enabled, and lists the name as Microsoft 
    OLE DB ActiveX Data Objects 1.0 Library, so it seems to be able to read the
    file. But as soon as I click on Apply to add it to the toolbox, it gets 
    an error message box pop up saying 'msado10.dll' could not be loaded.
    
    So, ADO is available, but is is only partially loadable to VB5, as far
    as I can see.
    
    Anyone had any success at doing this?
    
    Thanks,
    	John