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Data Binding

An enhanced graphical user interface is definitely user friendly, but is perhaps useless without any data. Data that typically is stored in enterprise relational databases (such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2) can be explicitly assigned to controls using a series of buttons and event handlers (Load, New, Update, Delete, and so on) by setting values from data values retrieved from databases. Although this is definitely an option, nothing beats the developer productivity benefits that can be achieved through automatic data-bound controls. This is precisely the benefit that the data binding feature of the Windows Forms control library provides. Controls can be bound to DataSet or any other collection objects that implement the ...