Tonights NYCDOTNETDEV User Group meeting: Data Binding in Windows Forms 2.0
Windows Forms 2.0 includes powerful new mechanism, components, and designer features for designing and implementing data bound user interfaces. Using these features, you can develop your data-driven applications in a fraction of the time that was required prior to .NET 2.0. This talk will explore and demonstrate the new features including the Data Sources window in Visual Studio, the BindingSource component, the BindingNavigator control, the Binding class, and the new DataGridView control. You will see how to declaratively hook up controls to data sources that include databases, web services, and custom object layers. You will also learn how to keep multiple controls bound to related data sources synchronized for single objects, collections, one-to-many and many-to-many relations.
Brian Noyes, IDesign
Brian is a Microsoft RD and a speaker, trainer, writer and consultant with IDesign, Inc. He speaks at TechEd US, Europe, and Malaysia, Visual Studio Connections, and numerous other international conferences, and is a top rated speaker on the INETA Speakers Bureau. He has published numerous articles on .NET development for MSDN Magazine, MSDN Online, CoDe Magazine, The Server Side .NET, and other publications. His latest book, Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0, part of the Addison-Wesley .NET Development Series, will hit the shelves in January 2006, followed by Smart Client Deployment with ClickOnce in the summer of 2006. Brian got started programming to stimulate his brain while flying F-14 Tomcats in the Navy, applying his skills and interest to programming aircraft and avionics simulations, prototypes, and support applications while stimulating his adrenal glands attending Top Gun and U.S. Naval Test Pilot School.