Conclusion

Using data binding effectively requires many objects to work well together: controls, datasets, data tables, binding sources, binding contexts, binding managers, and so on. This chapterand indeed, this bookby no means describe all the data binding tools at your disposal. Fortunately, the designer generates many of the objects that you need and connects them sensibly. Still, understanding what is happening behind the scenes helps considerably when designing data-driven applications.

The next chapter covers some more techniques for building data-driven applicationsin particular, how to manipulate the data island programmatically without starting Word or Excel.