The 1st bullet point on the cover "Increasing the performance of your application with ADO" is inaccurate for this book. There is no mention of the Datagrid, MSHFlexgrid, Data Environment, or SHAPE command in the brief ADO section. Databases, VB and Grids have always gone hand in hand, yet the authors totally ignore the grid with ADO. I must note here that this is not the only book that falls short of actually covering the newer features of VB6. In order to actually make use of these new features we are forced to 'fly by the seat of our pants' while gleaning some insight via MS Knowledge Base and a few books who actually bother to attempt to cover the features. However, this book was not much help.