Sams Teach Yourself Visual C++® .NET in 24 Hours

Creating the Authors ADO.NET Application

In this lesson, you will be creating a managed C++ application that produces a Windows Form. The application will access data found within an Access database and display the results within the controls of the form. Furthermore, the application will allow you to add new records to the database.

The first step is to create the main project solution. You will be creating a managed C++ application, so click New, Project from the File menu. Select Visual C++ Projects from the list of project types and select Managed C++ Application from the list of application templates. Give your solution the name AuthorDB and click OK to create the project. Now that the project has been created, you will need to create the ...