Accessing an ADO Recordset from ADO.NET
Even if you aren't ready to convert your existing codebase to work within the managed Microsoft .NET Framework, you still have a few options for reusing your old components. It's possible to use COM interoperability to work directly with your old methods and objects. A complete discussion of COM interoperability is out of the scope of this book. However, in this section and the next few sections following, you'll see how to access a Visual Basic 6.0 COM object method that returns a recordset object.
The function in Listing 16.1 is written in Visual Basic 6.0. It's fairly simple; it connects to a data source and retrieves some employee information from the Northwind database, places the results in a recordset ...
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