In Chapter 1, you created a couple of forms and some Find buttons, but your forms were left more or less inert; they do not interact with real data. In this chapter you'll begin to extract data from the Northwind database that comes both with SQL Server and SQL Server Express. You'll use that data to fill in your forms. You'll do this incrementally, adding complexity as you go. You'll put a premium on using data controls provided with Visual Basic 2005 and letting the controls manage the "plumbing" of database interaction for you.
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