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ADO: ActiveX Data Objects
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ADO: ActiveX Data Objects

by Jason T Roff
June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
620 pages
19h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The Microsoft Data Shaping Service

The Microsoft Data Shaping Service is one of two providers necessary to create a shaped recordset with a connection to a data source. The other is a data provider such as SQL Server. In this case, SQL Server would supply the data to the MS Data Shaping service, which would supply it to the application, through ADO.

To specify the MS Data Shaping Service, in the ConnectionString property, set the Provider keyword to MSDataShape. When the Provider property is set to MSDataShape, the connection string gains a dynamic property called Data Provider, used to specify the source of the data provided to the MS Data Shaping Service.

The following example shows how the MS Data Shaping Service property is used in conjunction with the MS Jet Engine:

Dim con As ADODB.Connection

Set con = New ADODB.Connection
    
con.ConnectionString = "Provider=MSDataShape; " _
                     & "Data Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; " _
                     & "Data Source=C:\My Documents\Biblio.mdb; "
    
con.Open

'
' do something here
'
con.Close
Set con = Nothing
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