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Record and Stream Objects

New for ADO 2.5, the Record and Stream objects facilitate the use of data in data stores other then relational databases. More specifically, the Record object helps with data in file or email systems. You could use it to display an email message or update the con tents of a document. The stream helps in working with a binary stream of bytes that make up a file or mail message.

A Record could be a row in a recordset, a file, or a directory. It can provide a way to navigate through hierarchical data. For this tree-structured data you could navigate through it, setting records to be subsets of the whole tree and then continue to move through them. With records you can perform a variety of functions including moving or copying ...