Memo to Ole type conversion

[Dana]

I have a database that has a field of Memo type. From a
VB.Net program, using Jet to connect to the database,
unicode strings are being stored!

I cannot afford the two for one overhead as the strings
are really just large binary streams anyway, not real
text.

It appears Ole type would do the trick to house a binary
type field.

How do I go about getting VB.Net to like and use an Ole
container? Currently VB.Net believes the access memo
type field is a oledbtype of VarWChar.

thanks for the advice,
Dana.

 

[Dana]

The way this forum shows up for me, is
microsoft.public.access, and "general discussions" in a
left hand column.

I do see a queries section, but, I beleive I am in the
general one. Maybe you message is just a boiler plate
for pointed to .Net?

I was hoping to establish a foundation in the database
design side of things and in a general sense, and then
try to go over to .Net if needed.

Thanks for the reply.
Dana