Visual C++® 6 Unleashed

Chapter 23. Programming with ADO

by David Bennett and Chuck Wood

In This Chapter

• ADO Objects

• Connection Objects

• ADOCommand Objects

• ADORecordset Objects

• ADOFields Collections and ADOField Objects

• ADOParameter Objects and the ADOParameters Collection

• ADOProperty Objects and ADOProperties Collections

• Writing a Visual C++ ADO Application

• Processing ADO Errors

• Enhanced ADO Recordset Functionality

• Executing Commands

• Transactions

This chapter takes a look at ActiveX Data Objects, or ADO, Microsoft's object-oriented interface to OLE DB data sources. ADO was originally conceived in version 5 to replace the Data Access Objects (DAO) and Remote Data Objects (RDO) interfaces, providing both a wider array of features and a higher degree of flexibility. In Visual C++ 6.0, ...