I'm a recent convert to visual studio and I was just getting used to the 2003 environment when the office upgraded to 2005. Now I can't find the connection objects in the data toolbox. I found it very handy to drop a sqlDataAdapter and a sqlConnection on a form and use them as my starting point to connect to a database. Now with 2005 the objects don't appear in the toolbox. Am I missing a component somewhere or have they been removed
I can still access these objects programmatically but I'm not as proficient with them that way.
Data controls gone in studio 2005
Kris2006
the binding model has changed dramatically, for the better I might add! Finally vs'ers are getting a real Data Binding model, like that enjoyed by Delphi users for the past 10 years - Data Source oriented binding instead of Tabular binding.
Thank you Anders!!!
look at "Displaying Data on Forms in Windows Applications" and "Data Source Web Server Controls" (those are ms-help links) . That should get you started.
SweatCoder
also look at this:
Whats new in Data:
ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_raddata/html/3d50d68f-5f44-4915-842f-6d42fce793f1.htm
Patrick14
ack! ms-help links don't come up. . .
paste this in your help browser
Windows:
ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_raddata/html/be8b6623-86a6-493e-ab7a-050de4661fd6.htm
Asp.Net:
ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_aspnetcon/html/1778e909-7728-4282-b7fa-5e4de453dc42.htm