Visual C++ 6 Unleashed

By MICKEY WILLIAMS and David Bennett

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Authors
  • About the Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Introduction
  • How to Use This Book
  • What You Need to Use This Book
  • What's New in Visual C++ 6.0
  • Contacting the Main Author
  • Part I: Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Visual C++ 6.0 Environment
  • Part II: MFC Programming
  • Chapter 2. MFC Class Library Overview
  • Chapter 3. MFC Message Handling Mechanism
  • Chapter 4. The Document View Architecture
  • Chapter 5. Creating and Using Dialog Boxes
  • Chapter 6. Working with Device Contexts and GDI Objects
  • Chapter 7. Creating and Using Property Sheets
  • Chapter 8. Working with the File System
  • Chapter 9. Using Serialization with File and Archive Objects
  • Part III: Internet Programming with MFC
  • Chapter 10. MFC and the Internet Server API (ISAPI)
  • Chapter 11. The WinInet API
  • Chapter 12. MFC HTML Support
  • Part IV: Advanced Programming Topics
  • Chapter 13. Using the Standard C++ Library
  • Chapter 14. Error Detection and Exception Handling Techniques
  • Chapter 15. Debugging and Profiling Strategies
  • Chapter 16. Multithreading
  • Chapter 17. Using Scripting and Other Tools to Automate the Visual C++ IDE
  • Part V: Database Programming
  • Chapter 18. Creating Custom AppWizards
  • Chapter 19. Database Overview
    • ODBC 4.0
    • OLE DB and ATL's Database Classes
    • ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
    • MFC's Database Classes
    • Structured Query Language
    • Data Definition Language
    • Data Control Language
    • Data Manipulation Language
    • Summary
  • Chapter 20. ODBC Programming
  • Chapter 21. MFC Database Classes
  • Chapter 22. Using OLE DB
  • Chapter 23. Programming with ADO
  • Part VI: MFC Support for COM and ActiveX
  • Chapter 24. Overview of COM and Active Technologies
  • Chapter 25. Active Documents
  • Chapter 26. Active Containers
  • Chapter 27. Active Servers
  • Chapter 28. ActiveX Controls
  • Part VII: Using the Active Template Library
  • Chapter 29. ATL Architecture
  • Chapter 30. Creating COM Objects Using ATL
  • Chapter 31. Creating ActiveX Controls Using ATL
  • Chapter 32. Using ATL to Create MTS and COM+ Components
  • Part VIII: Finishing Touches
  • Chapter 33. Adding Windows Help
  • Part IX: Appendix

Summary

This chapter took a brief look at the database interfaces used with Visual C++. This should give you an idea of which of the following chapters will be most useful for you in developing your particular applications. To recap:

• Visual C++ programmers usually use OLE DB and ODBC to access databases from inside a Visual C++ program.
• Although ADO is used in other languages to access OLE DB data sources, new applications written in Visual C++ 6 should concentrate on the pure OLE DB interface rather than the ADO interface.
• Most relational database packages use a variant of SQL (Structured Query Language) to manipulate data inside a database. SQL consists of the Data Definition Language (DDL), the Data Control Language (DCL), and the Data Manipulation Language (DML).
• You usually handle most DDL and DCL calls outside of your Visual C++ program. The new Database Project Wizard included with Visual Studio is a good way to administer databases.
• The DML consists of SELECT statements, which query a database, and INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements that change data inside database tables.

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