Building Data-Driven Forms with the Server Explorer
As you learned yesterday, databinding is everywhere in .NET. You can literally bind any type of data source to any type of object. Using the Server Explorer in .NET, you can set up quick-and-dirty data entry forms with just a few lines of code.
To see how to use the Server Explorer to create a data entry form, double-click the default Form1 in the DataTools project that you've been working with.
After the form is in the Forms Designer, drag the Categories table from the Northwind database in the Server Explorer onto the form. A SqlConnection object and a SqlDataAdapter object are added automatically to your form. Figure 11.11 is what your project should look like at this point.
Figure 11.11. ...
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