This is the third release of this project.. I've received quite a lot reactions on this project! (a lot more than I expected) keep it up! What's new in second release: - nothing really changed in the application itself (i just don't have the time) - I changed ISP, so a new e-mail adress(!) - Included my ICQ number... - Included my homepage URL. (There's a small faq and such...) - Included the DAO_TLB.PAS file What's new in the third release: (this one) - Finally fixed the problem with dao showing an error (Thanks to John Malia) The story of... I've always been very charmed by the MS-Access database structure. (Referential integrity, all in 1 file, etc...) I often tried to build data-aware components for it through OLE (Since I thought it was the only way except ODBC) but failed every single time... (Far too complex in the low-level stuff) One day, I was bored, and roaming around the delphi-menus, my eyes catched an interesting option : "Import Type Library..." in the "Projekt" menu... "What's a 'type library'?" I thought. (Well, not exactly... I think in Dutch most of the time :-) ) After selecting it, my heart started beating heavily, when seeing this item in the list : "Microsoft DAO 3.5 Object Library (Version 4.0)" After clicking OK, Delphi built a nice, ready to go unit for complete access to the DAO-Engine! I couldn't believe my eyes! That was just the thing I tried to build for so long! Ready in a few seconds! If you tried to find stuff for accessing DAO (Like I did), you know there are some comercial components wich do not much more than this (Ok, maybe has a nice wrapper) for several hundreds of dollars! That's easy money eh? It works through COM-Objects. I don't know if this is a good thing, but I guess Bill wants us to use it, since all their newsletters are filled with subjects about COM-Objects... Anyway, it does the job. I havn't measured it, but it seems to me it's quite a bit faster than through OLE. Here's an application that uses that unit to explore a database, the quick&dirty way, and far from perfect. (Wasn't even my intention ;-) ) I even tried to document it somewhat... I've included the type-library import unit (DAO_TLB), since I had a lot of requests for it. You have to have DAO installed ofcource! If you can't get it to work for some reason, let me know. Any hints/tips are more than welcome... (Even improvements of the example) e-mail : joco@netlimit.com ICQ UIN : 13219219 Homepage : http://come.to/joco Sorry for the bad english, it's not my native language...