Visual Basic Concepts
The UserConnection designer uses Visual Basic's ActiveX designer architecture to provide design-time support for programmatic data access. It allows you to create connection and query objects (based on the RDO rdoConnection and rdoQuery objects) at design time. These connections and queries are persisted as project-level objects. You can pre-set properties, define new properties and methods, and write code behind the objects to catch events.
Note The Data Environment designer is an improved version of the UserConnection designer. The UserConnection Designer is for RDO programming only.
This provides a simplified method for responding to events raised from connections and queries as well as for calling stored procedures and client-defined queries at run-time.
Here are the basic steps to using the UserConnection designer: