ADO Direction Property

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ADO Direction Property

The Direction property sets or returns a ParameterDirectionEnum value that specifies how a parameter is passed to or from a procedure. Default value is adParamInput.

Is it an input parameter, an output parameter, an input and an output parameter, or a return value from a procedure?

Syntax

objparameter.Direction

Example

set comm=New ADODB.Command
set para=New ADODB.Parameter
para.Type=adVarChar
para.Size=25
para.Direction=adParamInput
para.Value=varfname
comm.Parameters.Append para
 

ParameterDirectionEnum Values

Constant

Value

Description

adParamUnknown 0 Direction unknown
adParamInput 1 Default. Input parameter
adParamInputOutput 3 Input and output parameter
adParamOutput 2 Output parameter
adParamReturnValue 4 Return value