We have ClientList and ClientForm. When we run the application, it opens to ClientList, showing us a list of records in a data view grid. We would like to double-click in the list to open ClientForm. You’ve probably seen this behavior in many applications. Open ClientList in the form designer. Select the data view grid,…
So far, we have a form that displays clients in a read-only grid. Now we need a CRUD form, that is, a form that will let us create, update, and delete clients. We’ll create one from the GenericForm template and call it ClientForm. Notice that the form’s Text property, which is reflected as the form’s…
I just found a better way to maintain a master form without going all the way to inheritance. You can make a template out of your form, and then create new forms based on this template. The new forms are completely independent, without any link to the template the created them, so you can modify…
We had already set some general options for the data grid view, but now that we’ve dropped a data source into the data grid view and have some columns, let’s edit the columns. Let’s start with the first column, ID. We don’t need to change the ReadOnly status because the data grid view’s overall ReadOnly…
At this point, we have dropped a data source onto the form, and Visual Studio has done its code generation thing. We should be able to run the application and, even though we haven’t entered any data, we should at least get an empty form. So press F5 or click on the Start button. Hey,…
Ok, so we have the data source and the form we’ve created. The data source contains the Clients table, and the form is a copy of Form1 that we have called ClientList. Let’s go ahead and change the form’s Text property of ClientList to “Client List.” Now we can drag the Clients table from the…
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Create a new Data Source based on a database. You’ll need to add a new connection too. Since you installed dotConnect, SQLite should appear as an option when you add the new connection. Locate and select the database TheBooks.db. Save the connection as TheBooksConnectionString, if you’d like. Then select the Clients tables and call the…
You know, that was a pretty cool form we made. The DGV can display rows from a table, and the sidebar on the left can have buttons and links. It seems like it could be used in different places. Can we keep it and just use a copy? In C#, you can base a form…
There should already be a Form1 in your project, created automatically by Visual Studio when you created the WinForms projects. There’s nothing in the form, and before putting things in it, we’re going to set a few properties on the form itself. First, size the form to something like 800 x 600. Then, set the…