Thanks Vlad

the recordset that is returned from my server has these propreties except that the CursorLocation property is
CursorLocation = adUseClientBatch
The object appears to be passed back to my com server but VB throws up the following error when I try to access the recordcount property for the recordset

"OLE error code 0x80020006: Unknown name"

the code in the com server procedure is:

PROCEDURE passrecordset
LPARAMETERS rs
nCnt = rs.recordcount
.....

TYPE("rs") returns "O"
but TYPE("rs.recordcount") returns "U"

Any more thoughts?