Re: Which ADO version to reference?

Choose the highest that your clients will support. IIRC Windows 2000 gold
was ver 2.5

http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/mdac/techinfo/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmdac/html/data_mdacroadmap.asp


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"WB" wrote:
|I have a VB6 app that was developed on an XP system, and it works fine.
| However when I try to run it on Windows 2000, I was unable to connect to
our
| database.
|
| I installed VB6 on the Windows 2000 system and discovered that the ADO
| references for "Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.8 Library"and "Microsoft
| ActiveX Data Objects Recordset 2.7 Library" show up as MISSING. This makes
| sense, of course, since Windows 2000 is older.
|
| My question is: Should I reference an older version of ADO (2.1 is
supported
| on Windows 2000) and hope that this older version will continue to work on
| other operating systems (my app also needs to run on XP 64-bit, Vista
32-bit,
| and Vista 64-bit)? Should I somehow upgrade the ADO DLL & TLB when running
on
| Windows 2000?
|
| Also, I have no idea if I need both the "Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects
2.8
| Library"and "Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects Recordset 2.7 Library"
| references. I just removed the "..Recordset 2.7 Library" reference and I
can
| still connect and read from the database, so it looks like I only need the
| one reference.
|
| Thanks,
| --
| Bill Baker


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