Visual Basic Developer's Guide to ADO

by Mike Gunderloy

This text assumes the reader has mastered standard Visual Basic development techniques and is now looking for focused coverage to help develop and implement a universal data access strategy for database application. It gives instruction in the specific techniques and technologies to make Visual Basic a useful programming tool for tapping the power of ADO. The topics covered connecting to data using ADO; using visual database tools to investigate and modify databases; ensuring flexible data presentation using bound controls; creating complex forms using the DataEnvironment summarizing data with DataReports; working with disconnected recordsets; sorting, filtering, and editing data; creating data-aware classes; using server-side business objects; using ADO with DHTML; using ADOMD to query data warehouses; creating data sources with VB.

480 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999