I believe that it's a OLE Stream that embeds the picture, not a straight picture. -- Joel Lucsy

As Karl stated: Lots of oil in the north sea, and hardly any population at all. Many Danes spend a year or two working in Norway to get the ridiculous high wages there. "After all it's just text at the end of the day. - Colin Davies "For example, when a VB programmer comes to my house, they may say 'does your pool need cleaning, sir ?' " - Christian Graus

:-D a little bit of planning can help that... Actually, if oyu're used to this, it's not a problem. otherwise you have to use "surrogates" (like old newspapers) ask your neighbours :cool: we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr. sighist || Agile Programming | doxygen

I stick with C derivatives. I work with C++/MFC, JavaScript, PHP, Perl...these langs let me do everything all under one similar lang. Works great :) I'm drinking triples, seeing double and acting single :cool:

I believe either __uuidof(_Connection) or __uuidof(_ConnectionPtr) is better. Make sure to check that the return IID is non-NULL by the way. RSS feed

Where does your LPDISPATCH come from in the first place? That's an IDispatch, so using QueryInterface(IID_IDISPATCH, ...) is a no-brainer, it should just AddRef(). Are you using #import to pull in the ADO stuff? To get the recordset ptr, you should use __uuidof(_Recordset) in place of IID_IDISPATCH. This will either fail or fill in your _RecordsetPtr properly. Probably need more context to help more. Steve S [This signature space available for rent]

I have one ASP.NET (C#) site that uses COM objects for some functionality. I would say it is a non-issue. You can use COM and .NET effectivly. You could also simplify your deployment and updating by using ASP.NET.

If CryptAcquireContext() fails and GetLastError is NTE_BAD_KEYSET, you need to call CryptAcquireContext() again with the CRYPT_NEWKEYSET flag. This should only have to be done once per machine. --Mike-- Latest blog entry: *drool* (Alyson) [May 10] Ericahist | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber "You have Erica on the brain" - Jon Sagara to me