I'm new to VS2008 (and ASP.NET in general).

I'm trying a simple example, i have a class that exposes a DataSet and
want to populate 2 textboxes on a web form...

how can i bind from the datasource? (and have it update it after
clicking a Save button)

I've seen some examples refer to a Bindings property, but i don't see
it exists in a Textbox object... there's only DataBind() and it takes
no params, and there's no DataSource property...

Thanks!

On Mar 10, 8:35*pm, Ben <benm5...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to VS2008 (and ASP.NET in general).
>
> I'm trying a simple example, i have a class that exposes a DataSet and
> want to populate 2 textboxes on a web form...
>
> how can i bind from the datasource? (and have it update it after
> clicking a Save button)
>
> I've seen some examples refer to a Bindings property, but i don't see
> it exists in a Textbox object... there's only DataBind() and it takes
> no params, and there's no DataSource property...
>
> Thanks!

I found this Westwind.Web.Data which looks really cool:
http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/4659/3/

i'm not really sure from the example how to set the
BindingSourceObject & BindingSourceProperty properties. I have a
static class object called Config, and it's GetData returns a single
row with a field called "ID"... so I set:

BindingSourceObject = "Config.GetData"
and
BindingSourceProperty = "ID"

but can't figure out why i get "** Field binding Error **" on my bound
textbox...

anyone got this thing to work?

On Mar 10, 10:58*pm, Ben <benm5...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 10, 8:35*pm, Ben <benm5...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm new to VS2008 (and ASP.NET in general).
>
> > I'm trying a simple example, i have a class that exposes a DataSet and
> > want to populate 2 textboxes on a web form...
>
> > how can i bind from the datasource? (and have it update it after
> > clicking a Save button)
>
> > I've seen some examples refer to a Bindings property, but i don't see
> > it exists in a Textbox object... there's only DataBind() and it takes
> > no params, and there's no DataSource property...
>
> > Thanks!
>
> I found this Westwind.Web.Data which looks really cool:http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/4659/3/
>
> i'm not really sure from the example how to set the
> BindingSourceObject & BindingSourceProperty properties. * I have a
> static class object called Config, and it's GetData returns a single
> row with a field called "ID"... so I set:
>
> BindingSourceObject *= "Config.GetData"
> and
> BindingSourceProperty = "ID"
>
> but can't figure out why i get "** Field binding Error **" on my bound
> textbox...
>
> anyone got this thing to work?

Ahhh.... found my problem.

BindingSourceObject had to point to a public object name on the form
(accessible via: this.<objectname>)

COOL !!! this thing is awesome, gonna save me so much time!