What Have We Learned?

How to create a data bound ActiveX ADO control.
How to raise an event in the host from our control.
How to add customized property pages to our control.
How to wire in an About form to the control's property box.
How to add a customized bitmap for the tool palette.
How to build the final .OCX version of the control.
How the compiled control is entered in the Registry on the user's machine. This is how VB locates our control.

In the next chapter we'll continue exploring ADO by looking at how we can use it to interact with Active Server Pages (ASP) in order to build database applications for the Internet.