Binding Data to a Control

Up to now all of the examples that have painted the contents of a DataSet have done so by iterating through the DataTables.Rows collection for each DataTable inside the DataSet. This is non-ideal for several reasons:

  • The burden of responsibility to paint the data manually every time there is an update in the DataSet contents falls on the developer.

  • The process of painting into a ListBox is error prone.

  • It is unwieldy to write code that paints only those DataRows with certain RowState values.

  • It is not easy to make the ListBox appealing to the eye when using it to display relational data.

The best solution to this problem is to use data binding, which connects a source of data to a consumer. The most popular source of data ...

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