Introduction

Now that you know how to put together a user interface in Visual C# .NET, it's time to turn to the functionality behind that user interface. One of the most important parts of almost any application is to connect the data model of the application to the user interface. Data model is a general term: It might refer to data stored in a database, or to an array of values, or to items contained in an object from the System.Collections namespace. The data model is internal to the application. It contains information that is known to the application.

To be useful for the end users of your application, the data model must somehow be connected to the user interface. One of the easiest ways to make a connection between the data model and the ...

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