Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Discussing the Drag and Drop Data-Binding

Visual Studio 2015 retakes from its predecessor the feature of the drag and drop data-binding, something that was already available in Windows Forms for many years. The drag and drop data-binding enables developers to quickly build data forms in WPF by dragging items from the Data Sources window, and Visual Studio will generate all the XAML code for you, including master-details scenarios. This section explains how you can take advantage of the WPF drag and drop data-binding to easily build data forms, explaining the meaning and behavior of the auto-generated code. This section also relies on many concepts described in Chapter 26, “Introducing ADO.NET Entity Framework,” such as DbContext and DbSet classes, ...