Databinding with ActiveX Controls in Visual C++

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The latest version of this topic can be found at Visual Studio 2017 Documentation. Databinding is implemented through two types of ActiveX controls: data controls and data-bound controls.

Data controls
A data control is responsible for encapsulating a database query and the retrieved rowset. The Microsoft data controls provide a user interface consisting of a series of buttons to iterate through the data. Visual C++ offers two data access technologies for data controls: ADO and RDO.

Data-bound controls
A data-bound control is responsible for presenting the data. Data-bound controls connect to data controls to receive data and present the data through a variety of user interfaces. A Visual C++ application can also bind variables to data values set in the data-bound controls; see CWnd::BindProperty.

For more information about databinding, see:

• MFC ActiveX Controls: Using Data Binding in an ActiveX Control

• Data Access: ADO and RDO

• ADO Databinding

• RDO Databinding

• Wrapper Classes

• Setting Event Handlers on ActiveX Controls

• Error Trapping

• Limitations of Databinding

See Also

Data-Bound Controls (ADO and RDO)