DAO Interface Components

As mentioned earlier, DAO is the programming interface to Microsoft Jet. The following table describes the components that provide DAO services.

Component Description
DAO350.dll The DAO library, containing the object layer interface to the engine. This file contains both the DAO DLL and the type library.
DAO2535.tlb This file provides access to the obsolete DAO Snapshot, Table, and Dynaset objects and to obsolete methods. It’s used only for code in Microsoft Access 1.1 and earlier and Visual Basic 3.0 and earlier.
MSRDO20.dll This file provides support for ODBCDirect services.

See Also For more information about DAO’s use of type libraries and its OLE capabilities, see Chapter 2, “Introducing Data Access Objects.”