Data-Bound Controls (ADO and RDO)

The new home for Visual Studio documentation is Visual Studio 2017 Documentation on docs.microsoft.com.

The latest version of this topic can be found at Visual Studio 2017 Documentation. Databinding is a mechanism that allows users to work with data retrieved from a database.

Visual C++ provides a reusable databinding mechanism through ActiveX controls in MFC projects that lets you rapidly develop database applications.

This section is composed of the following sections about how to implement databinding in your Visual C++ application:

• Using ActiveX Controls

• Databinding with ActiveX Controls in Visual C++

• Creating Database Connections

For more information about data access programming:

Data Access Programming (MFC/ATL)