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Binding to a DataGrid Control

To finish off the DataAccess application, you're going to bind a DataSet to a DataGrid control. To set this up, you need to add a DataGrid and ComboBox control to the TabControl1 control.

Follow these steps to set up the rest of the project:

1.	In design mode, click the second tab on the TabControl1 control.
2.	Drag a ComboBox control from the Toolbox to the TabPage2 control.
3.	Drag a DataGrid control from the Toolbox to the TabPage2 control.

Your form should resemble Figure 10.8.

Figure 10.8. Form after adding DataGrid and ComboBox controls to TabPage2.

Next, you must write the code to fill the DataGrid with data ...