Visual Basic and ADO

Microsoft® Visual Basic® is the easiest and most convenient environment for developing ADO applications and business objects that communicate with Microsoft SQL Server™. With Visual Basic, the ADO object model is fully integrated into the development environment. This allows you to take advantage of features such as drop-down lists of ADO properties and methods as you enter code, and internally, high-level access to OLE DB functionality.

Visual Basic version 6.0 includes:

• The ADO Data Control and a number of other ADO/OLE DB capable data bound controls.
• The Data Environment Designer, an interactive graphical tool that allows quick building of ADO connections and commands, and provides a programmatic interface to the data access objects in a project.
• Dynamic data binding, allowing run-time setting of a DataSource property of a data consumer, such as a DataGrid control, to a data source, such as the ADO Data Control.

For more information, see the MSDN™ Library, Microsoft Visual Studio® version 6.0 edition.