The Full Form of DDV is Dialog Data Validation.

Dialog data exchange (DDX) is an easy way to initialize the controls in your dialog box and to gather data input by the user. Dialog data validation (DDV) is an easy way to validate data entry in a dialog box. To take advantage of DDX and DDV in your dialog boxes, use the Add Member Variable Wizard to create the data members and set their data types and specify validation rules.

You can specify validation in addition to data exchange by calling DDV functions, as shown in the example in Dialog Data Exchange. The DDV_MaxChars call in the example validates that the string entered in the text-box control is not longer than 20 characters. The DDV function typically alerts the user with a message box if the validation fails and puts the focus on the offending control so the user can reenter the data. A DDV function for a given control must be called immediately after the DDX function for the same control.

You can also define your own custom DDX and DDV routines. For details on this and other aspects of DDX and DDV, see MFC Technical Note 26.