your-role-in-working-with-a-record-view-mfc-data-access.md

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Learn more about: Your Role in Working with a Record View (MFC Data Access)

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Your Role in Working with a Record View (MFC Data Access)

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11/04/2016

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record views, customizing default code

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Your Role in Working with a Record View (MFC Data Access)

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
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.