Chapter 4. Off to See the Wizard

A wizard is a program that asks you a series of questions and then produces some sort of hopefully useful output. The output might be the text of a SQL SELECT statement, a new form that automatically displays data from a database, or even an entire database application.

This chapter describes four of the more useful database-related wizards provided by Visual Basic. The Data Link Properties dialog, Query Builder, and Data Adapter Configuration Wizard provide relatively small services that can help you configure the components you will use in your application.

The Data Form Wizard is a much more complicated wizard that helps you build a complete data access form. This wizard doesn’t produce a perfect result. ...

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