Bind a form to an ADO Recordset

To bind an Access form to a recordset, you must set the form’s Recordset property to an open ADO Recordset object. A form must meet two general requirements for the form to be updatable when it is bound to an ADO recordset. The general requirements are:

• The underlying ADO recordset must be updatable via ADO.
• The recordset must contain one or more fields that are uniquely indexed, such as a table’s primary key.

“`vb Private Sub Form_Open(Cancel As Integer) Dim cn As ADODB.Connection Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset

‘Use the ADO connection that Access uses Set cn = CurrentProject.AccessConnection ‘Create an instance of the ADO Recordset class, ‘and set its properties Set rs = New ADODB.Recordset With rs Set .ActiveConnection = cn .Source = “SELECT * FROM Customers” .LockType = adLockOptimistic .CursorType = adOpenKeyset .Open End With ‘Set the form’s Recordset property to the ADO recordset Set Me.Recordset = rs Set rs = Nothing Set cn = Nothing End Sub “`

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