Visual Studio contains many development tools for building your application. If your application incorporates data access, you'll want to understand the unique data access implementation and usage issues specific to the language or tool you're using.
To learn more about how each development tool implements data access, see the following documentation topics.
| Development Tool | Data Access Topic | Description |
| Visual Basic | Data Access Guide | Introduces the Data Access Guide, which discusses data access and provides links to information on related tools and technologies. |
| Visual C++ | Database Topics (General) | Provides links to information on two MFC-supported data access models, and answers frequently asked questions about MFC database support. |
| Visual FoxPro | Working with Data | Describes how to analyze your data requirements and then design your databases, tables, views, and indexes. Provides information on how to establish relationships between tables, enforce referential integrity, and manage local and remote data. |
| Visual InterDev | Data Access Architecture | Introduces Visual InterDev Web data access, and lists concepts to consider before beginning. |
| Visual J++ | Accessing Data | Provides an overview of data access from Visual J++, along with links to topics on related core technologies. |
| Visual Studio Enterprise Edition | Data Access and Security Strategies | Introduces Developing for the Enterprise Part 2, which offers in-depth information on planning and implementing enterprise data access in a distributed environment. |