Overview of Creating a Simple Bound Control

This chapter covers the details of creating a simple bound ActiveX control. The control is generated using the ActiveX Controls Framework Wizard. See Appendix A, “ActiveX Controls Framework,” for a discussion of the framework mechanics.

There are two types of data-bound ActiveX controls: simple and complex.

An example of a simple bound control is a masked edit control or an advanced label control. A simple bound control works with one row and column of data at a time, retrieving and updating only one value at a time. Simple bound controls have a simple bound property (or properties).