title: Can I create a simple DB browser with VS 2010 like I could with VS 6?
body: <p>Having recently installed the beta of VS 2010, I'm curious whether anybody knows how to get it to do something that was quite straightforward with VS 6. To create a simple database browser in VS 6, you could create an MFC application using a database view, connected to (for example an ODBC connection. Then, the interesting part. In a normal application, doing a -double-click on the control will bring up a dialog that lets you connect that control to a member variable of the dialog class. In a database application like this, however, it brings up a dialog that lets you connect the control to a field in the database:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4332943655_02d3e02477_o.jpg" alt="DB Field selection in Add Member Variable dialog"></p>
  
  <p>Having done this for the fields we care about, we can build the application (note that we haven't typed in a <em>single</em> line of code) and we can browse data from the database:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4333698736_5d6b076748_o.jpg" alt="Browsing live data"></p>
  
  <p>At this point, we have live data being read from (in this case) a SQL Server database, and we can browse through it, modify data, etc. The development is about like we'd used something like Access, but the output is a standalone executable.</p>
  
  <p>How can I do the same (or how close to the same can I get) using Visual Studio 2008 or 2010?</p>