Textbox format

Question

I want to format my text boxes as my data table fields. How can I do that, do I have to bind all text boxes to table fields?

Answer 1

Yes. Bind each textbox to a specific column of the table.

Answer 2

Hi chamW,

I have wrote a sample for you. This sample shows that you can use Binding to bind the TextBox! After you change the Text of the textBox1, its datasource will be changed at the same time.

private DataTable dt_test;
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  dt_test = new DataTable();
  dt_test.Columns.Add("id", typeof(Int32));
  dt_test.Columns.Add("TextContent", typeof(string));

  DataRow dr = dt_test.NewRow();
  dr[0] = 1;
  dr[1] = "It's a test!";
  dt_test.Rows.Add(dr);
  dt_test.AcceptChanges();

  Binding b = new Binding("Text", dt_test, "TextContent");
  this.textBox1.DataBindings.Add(b);
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  MessageBox.Show(dt_test.Rows[0][1].ToString());
}

 Here is the Binding Class on MSDN Library:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.binding.aspx

If you have any questions, please feel free to let us know.

Best Regards

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Neddy Ren [MSFT]
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