Visual Basic® .NET Database Programming

Summary

Programs CustomerGrid and CustomerListView enable you to add a query-by-example feature to your programs quickly and easily. You could streamline these programs by making them gather information from the database directly. For example, they could query the database to learn which fields are contained in a table and how they should be formatted. Although the current implementations require a bit more initialization than necessary, they also give you a lot of flexibility. They let you select data from more than one table, specifying your own join conditions, ORDER BY clauses, and even GROUP BY clauses when necessary.

You may find improvements you can make to these programs, but they give you a solid framework for building useful record ...