Summary
Some reactions of developers when discussing WinForms data binding are that it is too complicated, too difficult to use, and not as flexible as ASP.NET data binding. The truth is that ASP.NET and Windows Forms data binding serve two different purposes, and therefore act, function, and look very different.
This chapter showed you that Windows Forms data binding is indeed extremely powerful and very flexible. After reading this chapter, you won't believe any of the rumors that WinForms data binding is difficult or too complex.
You saw how you can do everything from simple binding of one property on a control to a field in a data source to cascading a long series of parent/child relationships in related DataGrid objects. You saw the mechanics ...
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