[dba-VB] Re: [AccessD] Getting Field Type From ADO Control

Sorry, I sent this to accessd instead of dba-vb  the first time.

On 11 Sep 2003 at 21:08, Stuart McLachlan wrote:

> On 11 Sep 2003 at 12:40, paul.hartland at fsmail.net wrote:
> 
> > To all,
> > I have a field selection box in a find form that I have created myself, but what I need to know is what datatype the field is that the user selects.
> > Has anyone ever done this and can tell me how....I tried the following line of code which runs through all the fields but it returns a number......
> > MsgBox frmPersonnel.ADOPersonnel.Recordset.Fields(fldCounter).Type
> > Anyone have any ideas ?
> > Thanks in advance for any help received.......
> > Paul Hartland
> > Database Designer/Programmer
> 
> Field types are enumerated constants.
> 
> In your VB project, set a reference to DAO then open the Object 
> Browser.
> 
> Open the DAO library and look at Globals.
> 
> You will see things like:
> dbBigInt = 16
> dbBinary = 9
> dbBooelan = 1
> dbByte = 2
> dbChar = 18
> dbCurrency = 5
> dbDate = 8
> dbDecimal = 20
> dbDouble = 7
> dbFloat = 21
> dbGUID = 15
> dbInteger = 3
> dbLong = 4
> dbMemo = 12
> dbNumeric = 19
> dbSingle = 6
> dbText = 10
> dbTime = 22
> dbTimestamp = 23
> 
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