environment designer ?

I've got a general question for those who use ADO -

I know VB 5 pretty thoroughly and, like everyone else I avoid the data control like the plague and do all d/b work in code. Now I'm learning VB 6 I would like to know if people use the data environment designer to manage connections/commands or whether it's still better to do everything in code ?

Hi Paul,
The Data environment is VERY easy to use, and can mange fairly big projects without a lot of work. The only drawback I know of is:

1. You cannot create COM components with them
2. They tend to make the whole development environment too "point and click". Obviously this is a personal opinion.