SAMPLE: AdoDataGrid.exe Demonstrates How to Use ADO with DataGrid Control Using Visual C++

ID: Q229029

The information in this article applies to:
  • ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), versions 2.0, 2.1
  • Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Enterprise Edition, version 6.0

SUMMARY

The AdoDataGrid sample demonstrates the various uses and combinations of ADO objects, and shows how to use the ADO Recordset object to populate the Microsoft DataGrid control, which makes presenting data through ADO very easy in Visual C++.

The sample also shows how to get results (recordset) based on run-time queries and how to populate the DataGrid control with that recordset. This sample application also demonstrates how to use the OLE DB DataLink interface to build a connection string at run time.


MORE INFORMATION

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Software Library. Click the file name below to download the file:

AdoDataGrid.exe
Release Date: May-27-1999

For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q119591 How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
The AdoDataGrid sample is a FormView-based SDI MFC application. All the files are wizard-generated. After inserting the ActiveX object (Microsoft DataGrid control), the wizard will provide CColumn, CColumns, CDataFormatDisp, CDataGrid, COleFont, CPicture, CSelBookmarks, CSplit, CSplits, and CStdDataFormatsDisp classes in their respective files. No modification was made in DataGrid and its dependent files for this sample.

In this sample, code for manipulating ADO objects is located in AdoDataGridView.cpp. The #import statement for ADO is located in Stdafx.h.

There are three methods to use ADO with Visual C++. In this project, the #import method is used. For additional information about other methods, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q220152 Sample: ADOVC1 Simple ADO/VC++ Application

Brief Description of User Interface

  • BuildConnStr launches the OLE DB DataLink connection dialog box, which is a container for a connection string. You can manually type in the connection string in a given edit box.


  • Connect uses a connection string in the given edit box and connects to the data source. Upon connecting to the data source, Connect populates the list with all the tables available in the data source.


  • Get Tables populates the list of all tables. You can click any table and DataGrid will be populated with the rows from the table.


  • ReQuery regenerates results based on a user-typed query in the query edit box.


  • Disconnect disconnects from the Data source and clears out Datagrid. Notice that the user can still type in a connection string and query and get the resultset back by clicking ReQuery, because ReQuery creates an explicit connection to the DataSource.


NOTE: Datalink (OLE DB connection string building interface) was moved from Msdasc.dll to Oledb32.dll in MDAC 2.1. If you have MDAC version 2.1 or later installed on your machine, replace Msdasc.dll with Oledb32.dll in the #import statement in StdAfx.h.

For additional information about this problem, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q225132 DataLink Type Library Moved from Msdasc.dll to Oledb32.dll
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Contributions by Saqib Rasool, Microsoft Corporation

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Last Reviewed: November 11, 1999
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