ASP.NET Developer's JumpStart

Loading the DataGrid Control with Data

In a previous chapter, you saw how to use the user-interface data components to bind a grid to a data source. You created OleDbDataAdapter and OleDbConnection objects and then used the menus to have the OleDbAdapter generate a typed DataSet for you. Although you can use these steps, you might want to bypass the overhead of the typed DataSet and bind the DataGrid to a simple DataSet that you create in code. As a matter of fact, you can bind a DataGrid to at least four different data objects:

• DataSet

• DataTable

• DataView

• DataReader

The only one of these that you haven't encountered yet is the DataView object. This object “wraps” itself around a DataTable and provides a sortable, filterable view of the data in the ...