Recently I have been doing some work on an older system using ADODB recordsets. Every now and then we still have to support these old systems. I wanted to create an open recordset in code on the .NET side to pass to the older system, but ADODB really wants an open database connection in order to open a recordset. My first obvious attempt was to create the recordset object, then create the field objects and add them to the recordset. I could create the recordset this way, but I couldn't open it, and ......