October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
15h 25m
English
Content preview from Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET
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Designer Support
Although ADO.NET provides a great deal of power in a small amount of code, you still may prefer not to do all the hand coding required in the earlier examples. For that reason, VS.NET provides integrated data access directly in the Windows Forms designer. In the Toolbox window there is a Data Tab, as shown in Figure 12.5.
Figure 12.5. Data Toolbox
This Toolbox contains the various kinds of data access objects you'll commonly need. These objects are instances of components, so they don't have UIs of their own. When they're added to a design surface, they cluster along the bottom just like any other component.