Filled with tips and suggested best practices for building robust database programs, this title provides real-world perspective is useful for effective coding with ADO. This book is part reference, offering full coverage of all objects in the ADO, and programming tutorial part, explain every object, property, collections, methods, and events in this library, including ADOX and Jro in the appendix. Discussion of the various cursor types available in ADO is also a must-read for any serious ADO developers. (Selects the cursor type is right for your project, it turns out, is not as easy as it appears.) Each section ends with "Questions To Be Asked More Frequently" in which the author invites you to think carefully about the ways you use ADO. Then here the strong move to the ADO Cursor Engine and newer Record and Stream classes, which allows programmers to "persist" recordsets to files (and even XML). This book shows you how to write a more robust database applications. Filled with time-saving programming expertise, Programming ADO fills valuable niche for any developer who wants to start working with ADO effectively. ADO, ADO object model and version 2.5 enhancements, Connection properties, collections, methods, and events; string connection, the connection to the OLE DB provider; Recordset property, collections, methods, and events; Command and Parameter properties, collections, and methods; using ADO Record and Stream objects; ADO cursor types and directions of performance; strategy for updating the database; programming with ADO Cursor Engine (tips on programming, concurrency issues); handling conflict database; survive recordset, recordset hierarchical and data form; introduction to COM; via recordset ADO among processes, Remote Data Service (RDS); ADO Extensions (ADOX) to manipulate the database structure; and Jet Replication Objects (Jro).