Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Discussing the New Drag’n’Drop Data-Binding

Visual Studio 2010 introduces to the WPF development a new interesting feature at the IDE level. The feature is known as drag’n’drop data-binding and is something that was already available in Windows Forms for many years. Now you can simply build data forms in WPF too with such new tooling. The base idea is that you can build a data form by simply dragging items from the Data Sources window, and Visual Studio will generate all the code for you, including master-details scenarios. There is also other good news in Visual Studio 2010, which is the Data Sources window support for entities from an Entity Data Model based on the ADO.NET Entity Framework. This section explains how you can take advantage ...