Preface

When I first started discussing this book with the editors at Addison-Wesley, I was a little skeptical. My gut reaction was, “Will anyone need a whole book focused on data binding?” I mean, Windows Forms is just GUI stuff, right? You drag this, you drop that, you hook up a few event handlers, and you move on to build the rest of your enterprise application—all the middle-tier goo that ties your head in knots.

As I thought more about it, I realized that a significant percentage of the work that people do in Windows Forms applications is centered around data binding, and most of the problems developers encounter are related to getting data-binding scenarios to work correctly. Add to that the multitude of new capabilities in Windows Forms ...

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