Microsoft® .NET Compact Framework (Core Reference)

Working with Updates, Data Views, and Data Binding

Data binding automatically retrieves data from a dataset, places it into controls, and updates the dataset when the values in the controls are changed. There a two types of data binding. Simple data binding displays a single row at a time, with its column values in controls such as TextBox controls or Label controls. Complex data binding uses controls such as the ListBox control to display multiple rows.

Tracking DataSet Updates

Data binding automatically retrieves data from a dataset and updates rows in a dataset. So this chapter will introduce how a DataSet object handles updates to its locally held cache of DataRow objects. (This book continues this topic in Chapter 15, Chapter 16 and Chapter 17 ...