determining-edit-mode.md

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Determining Edit Mode	Determining Edit Mode	rothja	jroth	01/19/2017	sql	ado	conceptual	editing data [ADO], edit mode ADO, editing data

Determining Edit Mode

ADO maintains an editing buffer associated with the current record. The EditMode property indicates whether changes have been made to this buffer or whether a new record has been created. Use EditMode to determine the editing status of the current record. You can test for pending changes if an editing process has been interrupted and determine whether you need to use the Update or CancelUpdate method.

EditMode returns one of the EditModeEnum constants, which are listed in the following table.

Constant	Description
adEditNone	Indicates that no editing operation is in progress.
adEditInProgress	Indicates that data in the current record has been modified but not saved.
adEditAdd	Indicates that the AddNew method has been called, and the current record in the copy buffer is a new record that has not been saved to the database.
adEditDelete	Indicates that the current record has been deleted.

EditMode can return a valid value only if there is a current record. EditMode will return an error if BOF or EOF is True or if the current record has been deleted.