The Active Data Driver is intended to allow reports to be based on ActiveX data sources such as ADO and DAO. Data definition files allow you to avoid specifying an actual data source until runtime. However, you may often need to simply specify an ADO data source at design time for the report.
The Select Data Source dialog opens when you select one of the active data folders in the More Data Sources\Active Data folder in the Data Explorer. This dialog box provides four options for selecting a data source to use in your report: specify an ODBC data source for ADO or RDO, specify an ADO connection string for OLE DB, specify a DAO recordset, or specify a data definition file. The Data Definition option has been thoroughly discussed earlier in this section. The remainder of this section will discuss selecting an ADO, RDO, or DAO data source.
The following topics are discussed in this section:
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