Manipulating a data source

There may be some reason or requirement for the developer to interact with data source from the code, that is, for manipulating a data source from managed code. A data source is a data structure that has information about a specific data file or database. We may have different requirements, such as manipulating data using the data source information. Or we may need to work extensively on a process before sending it to a data source. Anything like this may need various kinds of data source interaction using code.

Let's take a different scenario — how Microsoft SQL Server connects to InfoPath and manipulates the data in the InfoPath form and explain it by way of a demonstration. Populating InfoPath form fields with data ...

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