Question

I still remember in Delphi, developer can just make the UI(textbox, listbox…) directly connect to database, and then when user click a button, just call the post action, then the data will be saved automatically.

What I want to know is that is there any similar mechanism in MFC? Or I can use GetDlgItem(…).Text and then use this value to save to database ?

Or any other suggestions will be appreciated.

Answer 1

In VC++ , you have to use Microsoft ActiveX Data Object Library (ADO typelib) .

To store data you can follow these steps:

1.Retrive data from all controls 
2.Validate the data retrived
3.Use sql query to store the data to database. 

You can use ODBC API which is independent of any database management system.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms714562(VS.85).aspx

http://www.odbc.net/api/index.shtml