The Type property is read/write, with one exception; for new Field objects that are added to the Fields collection of a Record, this property is read-only before the Value property has been set and before the provider has called the Update method of the Fields collection

objectname.Type

For a Field object:

<%
set conn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Provider="Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
conn.Open "c:/webdata/northwind.mdb"

set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.open "Select * from orders", conn

response.write(rs.Fields(0).Type)

rs.Close
conn.close
%>

For a Parameter object:

<%
set comm=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
set para=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Parameter")

para.Type=adVarChar
para.Size=25
para.Direction=adParamInput
para.Value=varfname

comm.Parameters.Append para
%>

For a Property object:

<%
set conn=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
conn.Provider="Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
conn.Open "c:/webdata/northwind.mdb"

set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rs.open "Select * from orders", conn

set prop=Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Property")

'Display the property attributes of the Orders Table
for each prop in rs.Properties
  response.write("Attr:" & prop.Attributes & "<br />")
  response.write("Name:" & prop.Name & "<br />")
  response.write("Value:" & prop.Value & "<br />")
  response.write("Type:" & prop.Type & "<br />")
next

rs.close
conn.close
set rs=nothing
set conn=nothing
%>