I'm working with Viasual Basic 5, Professional edition.
I know that the Enterprise Edition includes RDO - Remote Data Objects.
Does anyone know if I can get RDO anywhere? Do i have to upgrade to
Enterprise Edition just to get that  (I hope not :) )?

Thanks in Advance

You already have RDO as part of the Pro Edition.  ADO is the up & coming
one to watch for.  Go to www.vbpj.com and look at the current/last months
articles & downloadable free code.  It covers ADO (which is the only one
included in VB6--Jet & RDO are both gone!)

Thanks for your quick answer, JRelyea.

I don't think I have RDO as part of my Pro Edition.
Look at thist text, taken from  BooksOnline RDO Configuration requirements:

"Note : RDO and the RemoteData control are 32-bit features of the Visual
Basic,
Enterprise Edition. You cannot develop code or use the RDO object library or
RemoteData control in the Professional or Learning Editions of Visual Basic"
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Talking about ADO, please answer me some questions, please:
1 - Is there any data control other than ISGData Control for ADO
    (the default data control is free, so why must you pay for the someyhing
    just because it's for ADO? - they only let you use it for free within
your
    company, as far as I know)
2 - What are the system requirements for ADO? Do you need to have
    NT Server + IIS on the server, or can you just use W95?

The thing is: i'm developing an appp that needs to be shared by only two
or three users on a network. I don't want to use Jet for it, but I still
wanted
to have data bound controls, cause the developing time is very short. That's
why I thought about RDS in the first place.

Thanks in advance for any comments.

Actually XML is the up and coming standard.  I think that you will see alot
of this in the next release of VB.

Bruce Murphy

Ok, herer we go...

RDO is indeed only included in VB Enterprise Edition.  It isn't, and never
was included in the Professional Edition.  It is not available in the
aftermarket or as a download (it's just one of those special things that you
only get with Enterprise).

ADO is the newer object model for data access.  It is meant to suplant DAO,
ODBC Direct, RDO, and basically everything else (VBSQL, DB-Lib, etc.).  RDO
and DAO will continue to be supported into the future, but don't look for a
whole lot in terms of featureset increases (RDO will have no future
versions - DAO is a little less clear on that).  RDO continues to be faster
than ADO, but they're working {*filter*} that.  Unless your need for
performance is =critical=, you're going to make a far wiser investment going
with ADO.

XML has nothing to do with either of the above.  RDO and ADO are basically
wrappers around some different data access methods (ODBC and OLE DB
respectively).  XML is a markup language that basically is meant to define
the metadata surrounding any data.  It is not a communication method, but
rather a standard definition language that makes it easier to use the data
that you've just communicated.

Hope this clears things.

Rob Vieira
STEP Technology
Porltand, OR