>I am trying to create a recordset to pass data to a DLL. The problem is that I need to populate the recordset before connecting to the data source (the DLL does the connecting).
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>I've tried different things but cannot open the recordset without a connection.
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>Am I missing something or can this not be done?
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>TIA,

Here is a simple example of doing this:

This.oDetlRS = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
With This.oDetlRS.Fields
	.Append("FileName", adChar, 15)
	.Append("Process_id", adInteger)
EndWith
This.oDetlRS.Open

After this you can use AddNew to populate the recordset.

If you would rather use a batch update, you need to persist an empty recordset obtained from the backend so that you won't need a connection in order to open and populate the rs at the client, and when you send it to the DLL you can BatchUpdate all rows at once. HTH