Data Connection Programmability

When writing a DDEX provider to exploit data designer extensibility (DDEX), inheriting from the IVsDataConnectionUIControl and IVsDataConnectionProperties interfaces allows you to easily implement the IDataConnectionUIControl and IDataConnectionProperties interfaces.

Data Connection APIs

The following provide links to the language reference topic for each interface, plus a listing of the properties and methods on each.

IDataConnectionUIControl

Initialize

LoadProperties

IDataConnectionProperties

IsExtensible

Item

IsComplete

Parse

Add

Remove

Reset

Test

ToFullString

ToDisplayString

See Also

Concepts

DDEX Data Connection UI

Customizing Data Connection UI