This is a class presentation, for introducing the concepts of Data Binding and Data Grid View Classes in C# and .NET

1. DATA BINDING AND
DATA GRID VIEW CLASS
A PRESENTATION BY
Arvind Krishnaa J

2. OVERVIEW
• SIMPLE AND COMPLEX DATA BINDING
• ONE-WAY AND TWO-WAY DATA BINDING
• Binding and BindingManagerBase classes
• Sample Data Binding Application
• DataGridView class

3. DATA BINDING
Link the contents of a control with an
underlying data source

4. WHY DATA BINDING?
• Changes to the immediate data source can
be reflected automatically in data controls
bound to it
• Changes in the data control are posted
automatically to the intermediate data
source

5. INTERMEDIATE DATA SOURCE
The term intermediate data source
is used to distinguish it from the
original data source, which may be
an external database

6. IMPORTANT NOTE
The controls cannot be bound
directly to a data source over an
active connection.
Binding is restricted to the in-
memory representation of the data.

7. MULTIPLE CONTROLS BOUND TO A
SINGLE DATA SOURCE

8. SIMPLE DATA BINDING
Simple data binding, which is
available to all controls, links a data
source to one or more properties of
a control.

9. DATA BINDING WITH A TEXTBOX
An application can set properties of a textbox
dynamically by binding them to a data
source.
The following program creates an object
whose public properties are mapped to the
properties on the TextBox

10. Simple data binding code
// Create object (width, text, color)
TextParms tp = new TextParms(200, "Casablanca", Color.Beige);
Method 1:
// Bind text and BackColor properties of control
txtMovie.DataBindings.Add("Text", tp, "Tb_Text");
txtMovie.DataBindings.Add("BackColor", tp, "Tb_Background");
Method 2:
Binding binding = new Binding("Width", tp, "Tb_Width");
txtMovie.DataBindings.Add(binding);

11. Where the class TextParams is…
public class TextParams
{
private int Tb_Width;
private string Tb_Text;
private Color Tb_Color;
public TextParams(int width, string text, Color color)
{
Tb_Width = width;
Tb_Text = text;
Tb_Color = color;
}
};
//with corresponding get and set method for the properties
accessing each data member

12. DATA BINDING ADD METHOD
The DataBindings.Add method
creates a collection of bindings that
links the data source to the control's
properties.

13. SYNTAX
DataBindings.Add( control property, data
source, data member)
control property Property on the control that is being
bound.
data source Object that contains data being
bound to control.
data member Data member on the data source
that is being used. Set this to null if
the data source's ToString() method
provides the value.

14. MULTIPLE BINDINGS
A control may have multiple bindings
associated with it, but only one per
property.
This means that the code used to create
a binding can be executed only once; a
second attempt would generate an
exception.

15. Multiple Bindings
To avoid this, each call to add a binding should be
preceded with code that checks to see if a binding
already exists; if there is a binding, it should be
removed.
if (txtMovie.DataBindings["Text"] != null)
txtMovie.DataBindings.Remove(txtMovie.DataBindings["Text"]);
txtMovie.DataBindings.Add("Text", tp, "Tb_Text");

16. BINDING TO A LIST
Instead of binding to a single object, the
control can be bound to an array.
The control can still only display a single
movie title at a time, but we can scroll
through the array and display a different title
that corresponds to the current array item
selected.

17. USING THE BINDING MANAGER

18. The simple part
// ArrayList of TextParms objects
ArrayList tbList = new ArrayList();
tbList.Add(new TextParms(200,"Casablanca",Color.Beige));
tbList.Add(new TextParms(200, "Citizen Kane", Color.White));
tbList.Add(new TextParms(200, "King Kong", Color.White));
// Bind to properties on the Textbox
txtMovie.DataBindings.Add("Text", tbList, "Tb_Text");
txtMovie.DataBindings.Add("BackColor", tbList, "Tb_Background");
txtMovie.DataBindings.Add("Width", tbList, "Tb_Width");

19. SIMPLE BINDING WITH ADO .NET
Binding to a table in a DataSet is
basically the same as binding to a list.
For example, the Text property of the
control is bound to the movie_Year
column in a DataTable.

20. Binding to a DataSet
ds = new DataSet("films");
string sql = "select * from movies order by movie_Year";
da = new SqlDataAdapter(sql, conn);
da.Fill(ds,"movies"); // create datatable "movies"
// Bind text property to movie_Year column in movies table
txtYr.DataBindings.Add("Text", ds,"movies.movie_Year");

21. NOTE…
Although the control could be bound directly
to a DataTable, the recommended approach
is to bind the property to a DataSet and use
the DataTable name as a qualifier to specify
the column that provides the data.
This makes it clear which table the value is
coming from.

22. COMPLEX DATA BINDING WITH
LIST CONTROLS
Complex binding is only available on controls
that include properties to specify a data
source and data members on the data source.
This select group of controls is limited to the
ListBox, CheckedListBox, ComboBox,
DataGrid, and DataGridView.

23. ListBox bound to a DataSet
da.Fill(ds,"movies");
DataTable dt = ds.Tables[0];
// Minimum properties to bind listbox to a DataTable
listBox1.DataSource = ds;
listBox1.DisplayMember = "movies.movie_Title";

24. SOME FINER DETAILS…
• After these values are set, the list box is
automatically filled.
• The DataSource property can be changed
programmatically to fill the control with a
different set of data
• Can be set to null to clear the control's content.
• Although no Binding object is explicitly created, a
DataBindings collection is created underneath
and is accessible through code.

25. GROUPING WITH OTHER
CONTROLS
Bound list box control is often grouped with
other controls, such as a text box or label, in
order to display multiple values from a row of
data. When the controls are bound to the
same data source, scrolling through the list
box causes each control to display a value
from the same data row.

26. An example…
txtStudio.DataBindings.Add("Text", ds,"movies.studio");
txtYear.DataBindings.Add("Text", ds,"movies.movie_Year");

27. ONE-WAY AND TWO-WAY DATA
BINDING
Data bound to a control can be changed in two
ways:
• By updating the underlying data source
• By modifying the visible contents of the control.
Changes should be reflected in the associated
control or data in both cases.
This is called TWO-WAY Binding.

28. ONE-WAY BINDING
A control may be bound to a data source in read-
only mode when its only purpose is to present data.
The data-source must be “write-protected”

29. Updating a Control Value
In the case where a control is bound to a property on an object, the
property must provide write support in order for its value to be updated.
public int Movie_Year
{
set
{
myYear = value;
}
get
{
return myYear;
}
}
// Read only property. Control cannot update this.
public string Studio { get { return myStudio; } }

30. Updating a property
If a control is bound to an object property, a change to the value of that
property is not automatically sent to the control.
Instead, the binding manager looks for an event named propertyChanged
on the data source
// Event to notify bound control that value has changed
public event EventHandler Movie_YearChanged;
// Property control is bound to year value
public int Movie_Year {
set {
myYear = value;
// Notify bound control(s) of change
if (Movie_YearChanged != null)
Movie_YearChanged(this, EventArgs.Empty);
}
get { return myYear; }
}

31. ADDING OR DELETING AN ITEM
FROM THE DATA SOURCE
Controls that are bound to the source
using simple binding are updated
automatically; controls using complex
binding are not.
In the latter case, the update can be
forced by executing the Refresh method
of a CurrencyManager object

32. USING BINDING MANAGERS
• Each data source has a binding manager that keeps track
of all connections to it.
• When the data source is updated, the binding manager is
responsible for synchronizing the values in all controls
bound to the data.
• Conversely, if a value is changed on one of the bound
controls, the manager updates the source data
accordingly. A binding manager is associated with only
one data source.
• If an application has controls bound to multiple data
sources, each will have its own manager.

33. BINDING MANAGERS SYNCHRONIZE
THE DATA SOURCE AND CONTROLS

34. COORDINATING THE TWO-WAY FLOW
OF DATA BETWEEN A DATA SOURCE AND
CONTROL
• Binding
// Create a binding manager object
BindingManagerBase mgr= binding.BindingManagerBase;
• CurrencyManager
• Bindings
• Count
• Current
• Position
• PositionChanged
• CurrentChanged

35. COORDINATING THE TWO-WAY FLOW
OF DATA BETWEEN A DATA SOURCE AND
CONTROL
• PropertyManager : This class, which also derives from
BindingManagerBase, maps the properties on an object
to properties on a bound control.
• BindingContext : A program's main interest in the
BindingContext is to use it to gain access to the binding
manager for a data source.
BindingManagerBase mgr = this.BindingContext[ds,"movies"];
// Or use casting to get specific manager.
CurrencyManager mgr= (CurrencyManager)
this.BindingContext[ds,"movies"];

36. Using the BindingManagerBase
to Navigate a list
// Bind listbox to a dataset.datatable
listBox1.DataSource = ds;
listBox1.DisplayMember = "movies.movie_Title";
// Bind to TextBox
txtStudio.DataBindings.Add("text", ds, "movies.studio");
// BindingManagerBase bmb has class-wide scope
bmb = this.BindingContext[ds, "movies"];
// Create delegate pointing to event handler
bmb.PositionChanged += new EventHandler(bmb_PositionChanged);

37. USING THE POSITIONCHANGED EVENT
The PositionChanged event is fired each time
the binding manager moves to a new position
in the list.
This could be triggered programmatically or
by the user clicking a row in the list box
control.

38. PositionChanged Event
private void bmb_PositionChanged(object sender,EventArgs e)
{
BindingManagerBase bmb = (BindingManagerBase)sender;
// Item should be a DataRowView if from a table
object ob = bmb.Current.GetType();
if (ob == typeof(System.Data.DataRowView))
{
DataRowView view = (DataRowView)bmb.Current;
// Could access: ((string)view["movie_Title"]);
}
}

39. A sample application . . .

40. THE DATAGRIDVIEW CLASS

41. WHAT IS IT?
With more than a hundred properties and
methods, the DataGridView is by far the most
complex Windows Forms control for
displaying data.

42. KEY FEATURES
• Data binding is supported by the
DataSource property.
• DataGridView provides a unique virtual
mode that permits it to handle more than
100,000 rows of data.
• DataGridView methods, events, and
properties allow an application to easily
manage the mapping between virtual and
physical storage.

43. PROPERTIES
• Elegantly simple structure
• Consists of column headers, row headers
and cells
• To these, we can add the Columns and
Rows collections that allow an application
to access the grid by indexing a row or
column

44. BASIC DATAGRIDVIEW ELEMENTS

45. 5 ELEMENTARY STEPS
1. Define column headers
2. Define style for data cells
3. Define style for column headers
4. Define user capabilities
5. Place data in grid (manually or using
datasource)

46. DATABINDING WITH A DATAGRIDVIEW
• A DataGridView is bound to a data
source using complex binding
• A DataGridView must display multiple
data values
• DataMember property is set to the
name of a table within the data source

47. USING A DATA SOURCE
// Turn this off so column names do not come from data
source
dataGridView1.AutoGenerateColumns = false;
// Specify table as data source
dataGridView1.DataSource = ds; // Dataset
dataGridView1.DataMember = "movies"; // Table in dataset
// Tie the columns in the grid to column names in the data
table
dataGridView1.Columns[0].DataPropertyName = “movie_title";
dataGridView1.Columns[1].DataPropertyName = “movie_year";
dataGridView1.Columns[2].DataPropertyName = “studio";

48. AND ANOTHER SAMPLE APPLICATION . . .

49. OTHER INTERESTING PROPERTIES
• Frozen Columns
• ReadOnly Columns
• Minimum Width
• Sorting
• Multiple Column Types : Six predefined column
classes are available that can be used to
represent information in a grid, : TextBox,
CheckBox, Image, Button, ComboBox, and Link.
The name for each of these controls follows the
format DataGridViewControlnameColumn.

50. EXAMPLE
DataGridViewButtonCell aButton =
new DataGridViewButtonCell ();
and similarly for other 5 controls.

51. EVENTS
Just about every mouse and cursor
movement that can occur over a
DataGridView can be detected by one of
its events

52. CellValueChanged (1) Occurs when the value of a cell
changes.
CurrentCellChanged (3) Occurs when the value of the
current cell changes
CellClick (1) Occurs when any part of the cell
is clicked. This includes cell
Cell actions
borders and padding.
CellContentClick (1) Occurs only if the cell content is
clicked.
CellEnter (1) Occurs when cell receives/loses
CellLeave (1) input focus.
CellFormatting (5) Occurs prior to formatting a cell
for display.
CellMouseClick (2) Occurs whenever a mouse
CellMouseDoubleClick (2) clicks/double clicks anywhere on
a cell.
CellMouseDown (2) Occurs when a mouse button is
CellMouseUp (2) pressed/raised while it is over a
cell
CellMouseEnter (1) Occurs when the mouse pointer
CellMouseLeave (1) enters or leaves a cell's area.
CellPainting (6) Raised when a cell is to be
painted.

53. Column actions ColumnHeaderMouseClick (2) Occurs when a column header is
ColumnHeaderMouseDouble-Click (2) clicked/double clicked.
Row actions RowEnter (1) Occurs when a row receives/loses the
RowLeave (1) input focus.
RowHeaderMouseClick (2) Occurs when a user clicks/double clicks
RowHeaderDoubleMouse-Click (2) a row header
UserAddedRow (4) Occurs when a user adds/deletes a row
UserDeletedRow (4) in the grid.
Data error DataError (7) Occurs when an external data parsing
or validation operations fails. Typically
occurs due to an attempt to load
invalid data into a data grid cell.

54. Associated Delegates
(1) public sealed delegate void DataGridViewCellEventHandler(object sender,
DataGridViewCellEventArgs e)
(2) public sealed delegate void DataGridViewCellM_useEventHandler(object sender,
DataGridViewCellMouseEventArgs e)
(3) public sealed delegate void EventHandler(object sender, EventHandlerArgs e)
(4) public sealed delegate void DataGridViewRowEventHandler(object sender,
DataGridViewRowEventArgs e)
(5) public sealed delegate void DataGridViewCellFormattingEventHandler(object
sender, DataGridViewCellFormattingEventArgs e)
(6) public sealed delegate void DataGridViewCellPaintingEventHandler(object sender,
DataGridViewCellPaintingEventArgs e)
(7) public sealed delegate voidDataGridViewDataErrorEventHandler(object sender,
DataGridViewDataErrorEventArgs e)

55. SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS
1. Cell Formatting : The CellFormatting event gives
you the opportunity to format a cell before it is
rendered. This comes in handy if you want to
distinguish a subset of cells by some criteria.
2. Recognizing Selected Rows, Columns, and Cells
3. Data Error Handling : The DataError event fires
when a problem occurs loading data into a grid or
posting data from the grid to the underlying data
store.

56. MASTER-DETAIL DATAGRIDVIEWS
Records in the master table have multiple
associated records in the detail table

57. MASTER-DETAIL DATAGRIDVIEWS
• The master grid is bound to the movies
table
• Details grid is bound to the actors table.
• Both tables, as shown, contain the columns
that are bound to their respective
DataGridView columns.
• In addition, they contain a movieID column
that links the two in the master-detail
relationship.

58. NEED FOR VIRTUAL MODE
• When a DataGridView is bound to a data
source, the entire data source must exist in
memoryDetails grid is bound to the actors
table.
 Enables quick refresh of control’s cells
Х Large data store may have prohibitive
memory requirements.

59. VIRTUAL MODE
• To handle excessive memory requirements, a
DataGridView can be run in virtual mode by
setting its VirtualMode property to True.
• In this mode, the application takes responsibility
for maintaining an underlying data cache to
handle the population, editing, and deletion of
DataGridView cells based on actions of the user.
• The cache contains data for a selected portion of
the grid

60. SO WHAT’S COOL?
If a row in the grid cannot be
satisfied from cache, the application
must load the cache with the
necessary data from the original
data source

61. DATA BINDING VERSUS VIRTUAL MODE

62. VIRTUAL MODE EVENTS
These events are triggered only in virtual mode.
Event Description
NewRowsNeeded Virtual mode event. Occurs when a row is
appended to the DataGridView.
CellValueNeeded Virtual mode event. Occurs when cell in
grid needs to be displayed.
CellValuePushed Virtual mode event. Occurs when a cell
value is edited by the user.
RowValidated Occurs when another row is selected.
UserDeletingRow Occurs when a row is selected and the
Delete key is pressed.

63. TRIGGERED EVENT HANDLERS
• RowNeeded : Is triggered when the user begins to add a new row
at the bottom of the grid. currRow is set to the row number of
any row being added.
• CellNeeded : Is triggered when a cell needs to be redrawn. This
does not require that a row be selected, but occurs as you move
the cursor over cells in the grid. This routine identifies the column
the cell is in and displays the data from the cache or the object
that is created for new rows. Note that the MapRow() is called to
translate a row in the grid to its corresponding row in the cache.
In this simple example, there is always a one-to-one relationship
because the cache and grid contain the same number of rows. In
a production application, row 5000 in a grid might map to row 1
in the cache.

64. TRIGGERED EVENT HANDLERS(CONTD…)
• CellPushed : Called when a cell value is edited. This
routine updates a movie object that represents the
selected row with the new value.
• RowValidated : Signals that a different row has
been selected and is used to update the previous
row. If the row exists in the cache, it is updated; a
new row is added to the cache.
• RowDeleting : Called when user selects a row to
delete. If the row exists in the cache, it is removed.

65. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
PATIENCE 
Slides Prepared and presented by : ARVIND KRISHNAA J