How to Display Data in Windows Forms

In order to display data in windows forms all you need to do is drag Items from the Data Sources. For more information, see How to Add New Data Source.

Before you drag the Items (i.e. table name) make sure that you select the display type and type of control that you’d like to appear in the Windows Forms.

To do this expand the Item name and the arrow down to select the display type and type of control which you would like to appear.

Display type

Type of Control

Once you finish selecting the type of control to appear on your Windows Form, drag the items to the desired Forms. In this case, you have to drag Books.

Now that you know on how to drag an Item to your Windows Form, add another form to your project with the name of the table and its prefix “frm”.

Your Project Explorer would look similar from the following image:

For the meantime, add only the four forms as shown above. We will add Borrow and Return forms on the next tutorial.

After you add all the necessary forms, drag the rest of items from the Data Sources that corresponds to each form (i.e. drag MembersDataSet to frmMembers.vb).

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