Re: Product support lifecycles - how do we know what is "out of su
I think you are talking on different subjects. ADO is surely
there to stay, but the OP was interested in teh controls built
on top of it.
My take is since the controls are considered VB6-related
ADO extensions, they are out of support along with VB6.
At any rate, I wouldn't touch them even if they were still
supported if I'm writing a C++ application...
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"Brian Muth" <bmuth@mvps.org> wrote in message
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I'm interpreting Martyn Lovell's response that it is VC6 and the
accompanying ActiveX controls that have been deprecated, not ADO. Remember
that ADO is the COM technology for connecting unmanaged code to a
database. The ActiveX controls such as Data Control and DataGrid were
built on top of this technology to proved GUI exposure to this data.
In short, ADO is going to be around for many years to come.
Brian
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