Everyone Loves a Demo

I’ve learned from the developer conferences I’ve attended and spoken at that everyone loves a good demo. It’s so much easier to discuss features and look at code once you’ve seen that code in action. So I’ll start this discussion with a demo.

The Data Form Wizard Has Been Deprecated

The first edition of this book used the Visual Studio 2002 Data Form Wizard to build a data-bound form in a few simple steps. That wizard walked you through a series of steps, prompting you for information. The wizard then used that information to create a new form and to add controls, other components, and a lot of code to the form. I use the past tense here to describe the wizard because it is no longer necessary.

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