Data Binding Anyone?

23 Feb 2006 7:53 PM

Tim Baur

I'm a VB6 developer who's just beginning to make the move to .Net 2005, and
I'm wondering if data binding is worth the effort. After a lot of fighting
with it in VB6, I finally realized the best practice was to leave it alone.
It always caused more problems then it solved. I'm guessing that many of
the issues are addressed in VB 2005, but I'm still hesitant to begin
employing it. Any thoughts?

This question is more of a opinion / religion topic, but I'm curious to
know what the group thinks.

23 Feb 2006 5:45 PM

Cerebrus

Hi Tim,

I haven't yet tried VS 2005, (working on VS 2003) and I find that
databinding can make your life real easy, *once* you get the hang of it !

You might be amused to know, that there is a newsgroup dedicated to
Databinding. Try subscribing to :
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms.databinding

Hope you get some useful opinions from the other experts.

Regards,

Cerebrus.

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"Tim Baur" <trbo20DIS***@RDyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm a VB6 developer who's just beginning to make the move to .Net 2005,
and
> I'm wondering if data binding is worth the effort. After a lot of
fighting
> with it in VB6, I finally realized the best practice was to leave it
alone.
> It always caused more problems then it solved. I'm guessing that many of
> the issues are addressed in VB 2005, but I'm still hesitant to begin
> employing it. Any thoughts?
>
> This question is more of a opinion / religion topic, but I'm curious to
> know what the group thinks.

23 Feb 2006 8:33 PM

Tim Baur

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"Cerebrus" <zorg***@sify.com> wrote in
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> Hi Tim,
>
> I haven't yet tried VS 2005, (working on VS 2003) and I find that
> databinding can make your life real easy, *once* you get the hang of
> it !
>
> You might be amused to know, that there is a newsgroup dedicated to
> Databinding. Try subscribing to :
> microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms.databinding
>
> Hope you get some useful opinions from the other experts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cerebrus.
>

Thanks, Cerebrus. I'll have to browse the group you mentioned.

23 Feb 2006 10:02 PM

CMM

Databinding in .NET is sheer magnificence compared to the old VB.Classic
days. It was a bit "tricky" in VS2003 because of the weird (slightly hidden)
ContextManager/CurrencyManager objects of the Form that made getting
"Master/Detail" stuff right a bit unintuitive. But this is completely solved
in VB2005 as they pulled out those hidden guys and turned them into full
fledged (and soooo easy to use) toolbox components (BindingManagerSource).

My bit of advice? If you're using datasets, make it a habit to bind to
DataViews instead of directly to Datasets. It simplifies LOTS of things.

--
-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

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"Cerebrus" <zorg***@sify.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Tim,
>
> I haven't yet tried VS 2005, (working on VS 2003) and I find that
> databinding can make your life real easy, *once* you get the hang of it !
>
> You might be amused to know, that there is a newsgroup dedicated to
> Databinding. Try subscribing to :
> microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms.databinding
>
> Hope you get some useful opinions from the other experts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cerebrus.
>
>
> "Tim Baur" <trbo20DIS***@RDyahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns9773976F6E65trbo20DISREGARDyahoo@207.46.248.16...
>> I'm a VB6 developer who's just beginning to make the move to .Net 2005,
> and
>> I'm wondering if data binding is worth the effort. After a lot of
> fighting
>> with it in VB6, I finally realized the best practice was to leave it
> alone.
>> It always caused more problems then it solved. I'm guessing that many of
>> the issues are addressed in VB 2005, but I'm still hesitant to begin
>> employing it. Any thoughts?
>>
>> This question is more of a opinion / religion topic, but I'm curious to
>> know what the group thinks.
>