Programming Microsoft® ADO.NET 2.0 Core Reference, 2nd Edition

Building a User Interface Quickly by Using Data Binding

So you want to build a user interface? You can write code that retrieves data from your database and submits changes, but you need to display data on a form and allow users to interact with that data by adding, modifying, and deleting rows of data. You also want to develop this user interface quickly.

Obviously, you can write code to read the contents of a DataRow and display that data in TextBox controls on a form. You can also write code that gives the user the ability to navigate through different rows of data, as well as the ability to add, modify, and delete rows in your DataSet. If you wrote a series of applications that all shared these same basic goals but differed only in the type ...