This sample application demonstrates how to use ADO and Microsoft® Visual Basic® to display long data types using the Employees table in the Northwind database. The Photo column is an image data type, and the Notes column is an ntext data type.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\Devtools\Samples\ADO\VB\Employee
Open the Visual Basic project file, Employee.vbp, and then start the project.