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Learn more about: Your Role in Working with a Record View (MFC Data Access) |
Your Role in Working with a Record View (MFC Data Access) |
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The following table shows what you typically must do to work with a record view and what the framework does for you.
| You | The framework |
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| Use the Visual C++ Dialog editor to design the form. | Creates a dialog template resource with controls. |
| Use the MFC Application Wizard to create classes derived from CRecordView and CRecordset. | Writes the classes for you. |
| Map record view controls to recordset field data members. | Provides DDX between the controls and the recordset fields. |
| Provides default command handlers for Move First, Move Last, Move Next, and Move Previous commands from menus or toolbar buttons. | |
| Updates changes to the data source. | |
| [Optional] Write code to fill list boxes or combo boxes or other controls with data from a second recordset. | |
| [Optional] Write code for any special validations. | |
| [Optional] Write code to add or delete records. |
Form-based programming is only one approach to working with a database. For information about applications using some other user interface, or no user interface, see MFC: Using Database Classes with Documents and Views and MFC: Using Database Classes Without Documents and Views. For alternative approaches to displaying database records, see classes CListView and CTreeView.