Hi Steve

You can use ADO right now (but not the data control)

data controls are problematic, and you'll usually want to use the ADO objects directly. Since you'll be converting to ADO in the near future, you might as well start now...

Just download the latest MDAC from http://www.microsoft.com/data and add a reference to Microsoft ActiveX data objects 2.x library

here is a tutorial on how to use ADO:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ps...k/mdat3n3g.htm

HTH

Tom