A slight mod to your COM object is needed. You can do everything except let the the ADO object pre-create the cursor for you. Look at the code I posted for using ADO for CursorAdapters --

Re: How to use the CursorAdapter Thread #719501 Message #722983

>I tried this, but if I create the record set by any other method than the Autofill and then call Autofill, it fails.
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>I know this sounds odd, what I am trying to do, but we create our recordsets using a COM object that is on a resource pooling server, from all of our front end apps. I need to convert the recordset AFTER it already exists.