Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework

Summary

The chapter began with a section illustrating the basic terminology and classes specific to ADO.NET and disconnected data as well as the basics of constructing those objects and connecting to a data source. The next section illustrated how to perform basic database operations (creating, reading, updating, and deleting records). Included in that section were tips on handling the common issues of dealing with disconnected data and auto-increment primary keys, and how to specify primary key information for untyped datasets. The section ended with a fully functional MFC maintenance application using the ADO.NET against a sample database. Once that section was completed, I then illustrated several techniques for reading and writing data in ...