Hi, Vin-

>Just a note: I'm not sure if you are a COM+/Just-In-Time-Activation fan (I know that many are not) but the set/get approach won't work with components making use of JITA.

I think you're talking about a scale of application that would, I agree, require a different architecture.

>Like you, I can't stand "percolating ADO recordset up the chain" (great phrase, btw). As a result, I make pretty extensive use of the ado recordset's GetString method, which generates the data as a delimited string. This makes it easier to pass the data around (including by value), and will work for multi-record sets. (Unfortunately, you also need to tag on field names and types, which GetString doesn't do -- I throw 'em onto the end as a "last row.")

This is a useful tip that I'll stash away in my favorites. *g* Thanks.