Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0 : Programming Smart Client Data Applications with .NET (Microsoft Net Development Series)

Here is the rest of my review of this book.

Chapter 6 has a fairly complete introduction to the DataGridView control, which actually made sense to me. I'm still not certain how I'm going to go implement my UI, but this is mainly because I want hirerchial display of some sort, and apperantly the DataGridView doesn't support this. Since it is should be a two level hirerchy only, it shouldn't be a problem to display on the side, rather than on the grid itself, but I'm wonderring if I should take the time to investigate Infragistics' controls and see how easy it would be to this versus displaying it on a seperate grid.

Chapter 7: Right now I'm in the middle of it, and it is very boring. It covers all the essenstials interfaces for data binding, and I know I need those, it is just that some of this I know and most of this I will need to know, but I am slightly sick and it is a dry read.

So far it has only served to convince me that this stuff is not trivial.  Chapter 9 is supposed to show how I can implement it over normal business objects without too much trouble. I'm waiting expectantly, I really hope to avoid having to handle all the gotchas there myself.

I don't believe that I didn't know anything about TypeDescriptor and friends up until now, I kept doing it all by hand.

Chapter 8: Skipped this one right now, it talks about implementing data bound controls, which I have zero intention to do (ever!) . I'll probably be back later to check on it anyway, since it has cool stuff like "Autocompleting Input in a TextBox Control"

Chapter 9: Finally, I get to the real thing. "Implementing Custom Data-Bound Business Objects and Collections" is the whole reason I'm reading this book. So far it looks liket the author has as strong a bias toward DataSets as I have against them :-) I ended up implementing the functionality that I need right now by myself.  Since the bulitin support isn't enough. There are a lot of ideas about how to implement the interfaces correctly.

Chapter 10: Talks about validations and error handling, I'm skipping it right now.

Overall, this is a really good book, I don’t have time to play with everything that the author shows, but it looks very interesting.