While working on this article, I found that Access 2003 had references to DAO and ADO by default. I haven't done a lot with Access for the last 2 years and don't have any inside information on Microsoft's plans. I tried using ADOX to manipulate objects, but it always seemed much more difficult, it was always missing something. I'll have to see if I can come up with the same examples using ADO code.
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