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The data binding infrastructure, revolving around the BindingSource component and extensive Windows Forms Designer data binding support, facilitates the development of Windows Forms applications to deal with a broad variety of data-bound applications. This includes the use of custom formatting and parsing, as well as type converters, to enable dynamic data binding conversion for complex scenarios or when custom types are used. Additionally, you can mix and match the various data binding elements in several ways to enable common data-bound UIs, including master-details, list-view, and hierarchical models.