Hi Strad, > Thanks about ADO, but I really wanted to use activex > as I never used ADO I dont know where to start.
I can respect that - it's easier to "do what you know with what you've got" than try a new technology that is relatively foreign to you. However, it's MUCH easier to use the right tool for the job. I wouldn't expect Mount Rushmore to have been carved with silverware, regardless of how much better skilled the people doing it may have been with spoons and forks, and you don't play pool with baseball bats, regardless of whether or not you're better at baseball than pool. Always try to find the best tool and technology for the job you're after - otherwise you're spinning your wheels and wasting your time. I imagine your client is either paying you for your skills, or you're doing this as a labor of love in trying to make the site do what you really want. In any case, you've got another feather in your cap with ADO and you'll save on your own time doing development once you understand how ADO works (which /does/ have a learning curve). I prefer to have a project bid rate on my development projects, as I invariably create a very cool tool which helps me cut hours off of development time for that particular client that I will then integrate into my 'code author' library. Since I also maintain exclusive copyright of the code I create (a requirement I recommend all developers do, even if they choose to GPL the code or something else - exclusive copyright allows you to build off of it for later projects). A project rate lets me bid an assumed time scale for a project and the client is satisfied seeing a 'whole number' for the development task. If I deliver early, they're happy and I still get paid what I expected the hourly development would have been had I billed hourly. My 'code author' library is the slickest thing since sliced bread (IMABHO). I've seen other people with similar stuff out there or build tools/plugins that do individual things my code library does, but none of them could hope to achieve what an uber-geek with 12 years of VB development puts in his own personal VB code library. Some of the simplest things - like clipboard enumeration and building constants/enums/functions based on the clipboard contents, and some really slick stuff like formatting declares so they're 'perty' and easily pasted into email so they wrap correctly. (many of my clients just want the source code for a task - no compiled exe necessary - so having the code auto-wrap at 64 characters is just perfect). I spend as much time in the Debug Window in VB as I do in the Code Window. ;) Regards, Shawn K. Hall http://12PointDesign.com/ http://ReliableAnswers.com/ '// ======================================================== "When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die." -- Eleanor Roosevelt '// ======================================================= Rules : http://ReliableAnswers.com/List/Rules.asp Home : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vbHelp/ ======================================================= Post : [email protected] Join : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave : [EMAIL PROTECTED] '// ======================================================= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
