Data Access Components

There are three main data access components in Visual Basic .NET that you need for retrieving and viewing data from the database: BindingSource, TableAdapter, and DataSet. The BindingSource and DataSet components are located in the Toolbox under the Data tab, as shown:

The TableAdapter can be automatically generated depending on the path you take when adding data access components, as you’ll soon discover. Take a brief look at each one of these components in turn.

Chapter 10.4.1: DataSet

Chapter 10.4.2: DataGridView

Chapter 10.4.3: BindingSource

Chapter 10.4.4: BindingNavigator

Chapter 10.4.5: TableAdapter