The Data Form Wizard as a Starting Point
Congratulations! You've just built a working database application.
Of course, if building database applications were this easy, this would be the final chapter of the book. This application is very simplistic. You probably would not want to deploy it on a network with a large number of users. Imagine every user selecting every row and every column in your database. Yikes! That's a lot of network traffic.
The Data Form Wizard is more valuable as a tool for creating a starting point than as a tool for creating finished solutions. It's a great tool for learning about ADO.NET because you can look at the code it generates, as you've done in this chapter.
Before moving to the next chapter to learn more about the DataSet object, take a few minutes to review the code the Data Form Wizard generated in our simple application. Don't worry about understanding what all that code does right now. Simply look at the amount of code that's there.
Although the wizards in Visual Studio .NET might not generate an entire application that you can deploy as-is, they can help shorten development time by generating a lot of code that you can use in your application. In subsequent chapters, I'll cover many of these tools and look at the code they generate, pointing out why the code might or might not be suitable for your applications.