Mini-Guide: Data binding and XML
Learn how to create data-driven applications with these nine XML tutorial videos that illustrate
data binding and how to read, write, store and retrieve data from XML. You'll be introduced to
ADO.NET, ASP.NET and the .NET Framework's built-in classes for manipulating XML data. You'll also
explore the DataSet object and be shown how to retrieve and bind data to a DataGrid.
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Lesson 1 Data Binding Part I |
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Duration: 3 minutes, 26 seconds
"The power of data binding has been greatly enhanced with the .NET Framework, and
this video shows you how to perform data binding tasks using Windows Forms controls." |
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 Lesson 2 Data Binding Part
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Duration: 6 minutes, 49 seconds
"The power of data binding has been greatly enhanced with the .NET Framework. In
part two, this video continues to show you how to perform data binding tasks using Windows Forms
controls." |
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Lesson 3 Simple Data Driven
Apps |
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Duration: 6 minutes, 44 seconds
"This video introduces using ADO.NET and ASP.NET to rapidly build a data driven
Web Form that supports sorting and paging of data, a task that required considerable effort in
traditional ASP." |
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Lesson 4 Filling a DataGrid from
Microsoft Access |
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Duration: 4 minutes, 7 seconds
"See how to bind data retrieved from an Access database to a DataGrid. You will
see that binding to data from Microsoft Access is similar to data binding with SQL
Server." |
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Lesson 5 Saving Database Information
as XML |
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Duration: 6 minutes, 43 seconds
"This video shows how the functionality built into the DataSet object makes it
easy to store and retrieve data from XML files, and bind controls to this data." |
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Lesson 6 Reading XML
Files |
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Duration: 7 minutes, 57 seconds
"The .NET Framework has, a number of powerful, built-in classes for manipulating
XML. For reading XML, these include the XMLTextReader and XMLDocument classes, which can be used to
provide fast and flexible XML data access." |
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Lesson 7 Transform
XML |
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Duration: 5 minutes, 2 seconds
"In this video, you'll see how to transform an XML document into an HTML document
and display it in the browser." |
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Lesson 8 Validating
XML |
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Duration: 6 minutes, 51 seconds
"This video introduces the XmlValidatingReader class and shows how it can be used
to validate XML documents." |
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Lesson 9 Write XML
Files |
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Duration: 7 minutes, 58 seconds
"The .NET Framework has a number of powerful, built-in classes for manipulating
XML. In this video, you'll see how to write an XML file with the XMLDocument class and the
XMLTextWriter class." |
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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
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 Brent Sheets is a former Senior
Editor at TechTarget and a frequent contributor to SearchVB.com. He founded and managed the popular
Visual Basic Web Directory website until it was acquired by TechTarget in 2000 and relaunched as
SearchVB.com. Brent offers tips and tweaks about Apple technology at Mactoids.com. |
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This was first published in October 2006