Is there a "duwamish" for .NET Winforms showing best practices for use of the BindingManager with b

[Timo]

Thanks to David Sceppa for answer to my earlier question.

I'd like to know if there's a real-world WinForms application (like
"duwamish") showing best practices with BindingManager and bound
controls. I'd like to compare what I have against an "expert" approach
to see where mine is lacking and not as robust as it could be.

Thanks
Timo

 

[Morgan]

Timo,

You're outta luck on this one. I asked a similar question about a month ago
and received 0 replies. The closest/best thing out there is Task Vision
(available at http://www.windowsforms.com/Default.aspx?tabindex=7&tabid=44),
but it uses web services and is very code-intensive IMHO, especially if
you're the only developer working on the project with a timeline. It appears
that MS is pulling WinForms from it's classification of N-Tier, given that
developing a data-bound Client/Server app in WinForms is more of a headache
than ever. Why can't they download and evaluate Delphi and see what
databound forms are all about?

FWIW, use a Delegate for the .Parse event to kill empty strings being stored
instead of Null. For some reason, a DBA was not involved in the ADO.Net
design, so empty strings are stored from the bound textboxes if the text =
string.empty. Unacceptable, string.empty <> Null. Delphi takes care of
this...

Sorry for the rant.

Morgan