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Using the DataForm Wizard to Create Data Entry Forms

The Data Form template for Windows Forms applications is an extremely powerful tool for creating full-featured data access forms. This section walks you through the wizard and available options for creating a new data entry form for the Customers table in the Northwind database.

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ASP.NET applications also have a DataForm Wizard, but it isn't as robust as the Windows Forms wizard. In the exercises at the end of the day, you create an ASP.NET application that uses the DataForm Wizard to create a Web page, but the databinding technology between the Internet and Windows is different. Because the Web is stateless, it's more efficient to use DataReaders to bind data. ASPX pages are read-only ...