Getting the F! key to display ADO help in VB6

[arnierudy]

I posted this once and got no replies, so I'll try again.

I have been working with ADO 2.6 in VB6 on a Windows 2000 machine. When I put the cursor on an ADO object, property or method and press F1, I get "No help available". Help for regular VB commands and SQLDMO object work fine. I suspect the help files may have been installed in the wrong folder, or maybe I don't have them. Can anyone tell me the names of the ADO help files, where they should reside and where to get them (just in case)?

Thanks.

 

[sunaj]

Hi,

I've had exactly the same problem.
You can use ADO 2.5 - for which the help works (on my pc anyway), if you don't need any of the newer features anyway.
Or you could try to download and install the newest MDAC version from

http://www.microsoft.com/data/

- if you do that let me know if it solves the problem
Sunaj
'The gap between theory and practice is not as wide in theory as it is in practice'

 

[arnierudy]

Guess what? I found the answer to my own question. You need the help files for ADO 2.6. If you don't have ado260.chm on your disk already, you have to get the ADO 2.6 SDK from Microsoft's web site and install it to get the files.
The file ado260.chm has to be registered in this subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\HTML Help

If installing the SDK does not do it, you will have to use Regedit to add it.
You may even have to move the .chm and .chi file to the WINNT/Help folder and register it there, which is what I did, and now it works.