From: "Mark Edington (Borland)" <medington@nolunchmeat.com>
Subject: Re: ADOExpress with Access:  Not Ready for Prime Time?
Date: 21 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT
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Earl,

As you have already discovered you currently you have to resort to using a 3rd
party solution to use graphic fields in Access.  I totally agree this is a hole
in the Delphi ADO/DB implementation.  I had hoped we could offer this
functionality in the first ADO release but there wasn't enough time (the fact
that there is an entire product devoted to solving this problem should give you
some clue as to how much work is involved).  I cannot promise that we will be
able to offer this support in the next release, but it is something we intend to
look at.

I don't know if this is any consolation, but I don't think VB supports the
graphic images stored as OLE objects in access tables either.  I may very well
be wrong about that, but when I tried to hook up an image control to the Photo
field of the Employee table in the Northwind database I got an error.

Mark