Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Adding Data Controls

ASP.NET 4.6 offers a number of data controls that can be used to bind a data source to user controls and that act like a bridge. In particular, a control called EntityDataSource enables binding an entity data model to a graphic control.

Enabling the Designer

By default, Visual Studio splits the workspace into two areas, one showing the HTML code for the pages and one the design surface. To enable the Visual Studio designer full view, click the Design button. Click Source if you only want to see the markup code, or Split to return to the default view.

In Visual Studio 2015, you can configure the control and bind it to a data source without writing a single line of code only if you use Entity Framework 5 via a very convenient ...