How to pass string parameters to an TADOQuery?

Question

Using Delphi 2010

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here with my code. The comments show the errors that I receive with the particular methods that I tried to pass parameters to my ADOQuery

procedure CreateAdminLogin(const APasswd: string);
var
  qry: TADOQuery;
  //P1, P2: TParameter;
begin
  qry := TADOQuery.Create(nil);
  try
    qry.Connection := frmDataModule.conMain;
    qry.SQL.Text := 'INSERT INTO Users (User_Id, Password) VALUES (:u, :p)';

    //Syntax error in INTO statement
    qry.Parameters.ParamByName('u').Value:= 'Admin';
    qry.Parameters.ParamByName('p').Value:= GetMd5(APasswd);


    //invalid variant operation
    {qry.Parameters.ParamByName('u').Value.AsString:= 'Admin';
    qry.Parameters.ParamByName('p').Value.AsString:= GetMd5(APasswd);}

    //invalid variant operation
    {P1:= qry.Parameters.ParamByName('u');
    P1.Value.asString:= 'Admin';
    P2:= qry.Parameters.ParamByName('p');
    P2.Value.asString:= GetMd5(APasswd);}


    qry.Prepared := True;
    qry.ExecSQL;
  finally
    qry.Free;
  end;

end;

NOTE: GetMD5 is declared as follows

function GetMd5(const Value: String): string;
var
  hash: MessageDigest_5.IMD5;
  fingerprint: string;
begin
  hash := MessageDigest_5.GetMd5();
  hash.Update(Value);
  fingerprint := hash.AsString();
  Result := fingerprint;
end;

Thankx

Answer 1

This works fine for me, using the DBDemos.MDB file that shipped with Delphi (C:\Users\Public\Documents\RAD Studio\9.0\Samples\Data\dbdemos.mdb by the default installation)

ADOQuery1.SQL.Clear;
ADOQuery1.SQL.Add('INSERT INTO Country (Name, Capital, Continent, Area, Population)');
ADOQuery1.SQL.Add('VALUES (:Name, :Capital, :Continent, :Area, :Population)');

ADOQuery1.Parameters.ParamByName('Name').Value := 'SomePlace';
ADOQuery1.Parameters.ParamByName('Capital').Value := 'Pitsville';
ADOQuery1.Parameters.ParamByName('Continent').Value := 'Floating';
ADOQuery1.Parameters.ParamByName('Area').Value := 1234;
ADOQuery1.Parameters.ParamByName('Population').Value := 56;
ADOQuery1.ExecSQL;
ADOQuery1.Close;

// Open it to read the data back
ADOQuery1.SQL.Text := 'SELECT * FROM Country WHERE Name = :Name';
ADOQuery1.Parameters.ParamByName('Name').Value := 'SomePlace';
ADOQuery1.Open;
ShowMessage(ADOQuery1.FieldByName('Name').AsString);