Look in the CFrame, CMDIFrame, CView, or a class derived from one of these, for some methods to do this. Those classes perform the drawing of the windows and their background. There may be some public members that can be directly set also. My personal guess is a CFrame derived class. I don't remember completely, but you may have to use some API functions to get the pointers to the objects that would need to be changed. The form background should not be in the App class or the Doc class, since these have to do with running the program and storing the data. I know this does not provide all the answer, but just gives somewhere to start. David Spain, C++ Applications Programmer

Looks like you are trying out the ADO tutorial in MSDN. The variables adVarChar etc.. are in msado15.dll. Did you import the "c:\Program Files\Common Files\System\ADO\msado15.dll" into your program?

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Ok, so you have a #include hierarchy like this: stdafx.cpp | \---stdafx.h | ----afxv_w32.h | \---comdef.h Is that right? "Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless." - Unknown

Hi, U can use CDaoDatabase and CDaoRecordset Classes to handle databases. U can directly open access(.mdb) databases and also thro odbc. These classes support both of them. U can also ADO. it is better than DAO. Refer MSDN for more details. Bye Cool Ju:cool:

No, of course not! ;P You use a recordset, (coded in C++) which needs a query string like the one I showed. The opinions expressed in this communication do not necessarily represent those of the author (especially if you find them impolite, discourteous or inflammatory).

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