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Why is it that when creating a parameter for TADOStoredProc of type ftBlob I
can't do:

TADOStoredProc* storedProc = new TADOStoredProc(NULL);
TMemoryStream* ms = new TMemoryStream;
ms->LoadFromFile("somefile.txt");
storedProc->Parameters->CreateParameter("@Data", ftBlob, pdInput, 16, ms);
storedProc->ExecProc();

Instead I have to do:

TADOStoredProc* storedProc = new TADOStoredProc(NULL);
TMemoryStream* ms = new TMemoryStream;
ms->LoadFromFile("somefile.txt");

TParameter* p = storedProc->Parameters->AddParameter();
p->Name = "@Data";
p->Direction = pdInput;
p->LoadFromFile("somefile.txt");
storedProc->ExecProc();

If I use the first example then it generates a runtime exception
"Application uses a value of the wrong type for this application" when
calling CreateParameter. I discovered the method that works by querying
Google. Ironically the article I discovered was for the same problem someone
was having in Delpi, but he codes translates over easily. Is there somewhere
that this is documented for BCB6?

Jim