Exercise: Displaying a Recordset in a DataGrid
In most of the examples in this chapter, we have used print statements or some other simplistic method to display data. However, Visual Basic has always allowed some type of automatic data binding, or associating a set of records with controls on a form. The controls in Visual Basic .NET (such as the DataGrid) are designed for use with ADO.NET. Fortunately, you can take advantage of the fact that XML is a shared format between the older ADO Recordset and ADO.NET DataSet. In this section, we will perform a simple exercise used to display an ADO Recordset in a DataGrid control.
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