Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Choosing a new data source

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Figure 8-11 Choosing a new data source

On the Select The Data Objects window, check the box next to each object you want to bind in your application. The example in this chapter uses Customer and Order objects, which you can see checked in Figure 8-12. Clicking Finish will configure the data source for use in the application. You can view data sources by selecting Data Show Data Sources, shown in Figure 8-13.

The Data Sources window allows you to create controls on a form that are bound to each field of a data source. In the Data Sources window in Figure 8-13, you can see that both Customer and Object are listed with their fields. What is also evident is the icons associated with each field. The icons describe what type of control should be associated with each data field. For example, Name on Customer is a TextBox because it is nvarchar(50), but Birthday is a calendar because it is a datetime. If you don’t like a default control type for a field, you can change it by selecting the field and choosing another control type from the drop-down list, as shown in Figure 8-14.