ActiveX Data Objects: Difference between revisions

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*Property (stores information about objects)

ADO component is used in conjunction with a high-level language, such as [[VBScript programming language|VBScript]] in an [[Active Server Pages]] (ASP) environment, or Visual Basic. Even developing tool [[Delphi]], a development environment from Microsoft rival [[Borland]] Coporation, now allowallows the use of ADO to access various databasedatabases.

In the newer programming framework of .NET, [[Microsoft]] also present an upgraded version of ADO called [[ADO.NET]],. itsIts object structure is quite different from that of traditional ADO. ButTraditional ADO.NET is still not quitevery popular, and matureis tilloften nowperceived as being more mature.

Here is an ASP example using ADO to select the "Name" field, from a table called "Phonebook", where a "PhoneNumber" was equal to "555-5555".