Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Understanding the DataGrid and the ObservableCollection

In most cases you perform data-binding operations against .NET collections, even when fetching data from databases. WPF offers a different binding mechanism, such as user controls like the new DataGrid, the ListView, or the ListBox; moreover you can bind specific data to single controls like TextBox (for example when building master-details representations). In this book, which targets Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4.0, you get an example of how to take advantage of the new DataGrid control, which offers a convenient and fast way for tabular data. The goal of next example is binding a collection of objects to a DataGrid allowing insert/update/delete operations onto the collection. First, add ...