Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub

Question

I have a Classic ASP page that contains the following code to attempt a parametised query;

<%
Set cmdEmail = Server.CreateObject(\"ADODB.Command\")
Set rsEmai         


        

Answer 1

Aren't you missing the "Set" statement in there?

ie:

<%
Set cmdEmail = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Set rsEmail = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")

UPDATE:

In response to Neil's comment of:

Thanks CraigTP. It seems to be creating the instance of ADODB.Command and ADODB.Recordset, but having issues witht he last 4 lines of the code.

I think the last lines of code, should read something like:

cmdEmail.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM VWTenantPropertiesResults WHERE ContentID = ?"
cmdEmail.CommandType = 1
cmdEmail.ActiveConnection = MM_dbconn_STRING
Set adoParam = cmdEmail.CreateParameter("@ContentID", 3, 1, , request.Form("ContentID"))
adoParam.Type = [the datatype of the parameter]
cmdEmail.Parameters.Append(adoParam)

Note that the .CreateParameter method will return a Parameter object. You should assign this returned object to a variable which you then use as a parameter to the .Append method on the Command object's Parameters collection.

See these links for more information:

CreateParameter Method (ADO)
Parameters Collection (ADO)
Append Method (ADO)

Note the section headed "Remarks Parameters Collection" where it states:

You must set the Type property of a Parameter object before appending it to the Parameters collection.

The .Type property of the Parameter object takes a value from the DataTypeEnum enumeration to specify the data type of the parameter. Replace the [the datatype of the parameter] bit of my code above with the relevant data type enum value.

UPDATE 2:

Sorry, didn't notice the question title text had changed!

Ah.. The old classic "Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub" error, eh?

Well, this is explained here:

Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub

In a nutshell:

You invoked a subroutine without the Call statement, but used parentheses (). When calling a subroutine without the Call statement, do not use parentheses.

To correct this error:

• Remove the parentheses from the subroutine invocation.
• Use the Call statement to invoke the subroutine instead.

There's also a blog post from Eric Lippert that addresses this common error:

What do you mean "cannot use parentheses?"