>Can someone give me an example of the syntax for creating a connection string to a Database for an ADO connection object?

If you are using an ODBC datasource, the connection string for an ADO object is hte same as the one used by a VFP connection. YOu can expedite creating your own by creating a VFP connection to an ODBC datasource, saving it, and then checking the querystring with:

DBGETPROP("MyConnection","Connection","ConnectString")