This chapter builds on the content of Chapter 25, “Data Access with .NET,” which covers various ways of selecting and changing data, showing you how to present data to the user by binding to various Windows controls. More specifically, this chapter discusses:
Displaying data using the DataGridView control - new with Visual Studio 2005
The .NET data-binding capabilities and how they work
How to use the Server Explorer to create a connection and generate a DataSet class (all without writing a line of code)
How to use hit testing and reflection on rows in the DataGrid
You can download the source code for the examples in this chapter from the Wrox Web site at www.wrox.com.