I suspect I'm just talking to myself here. But I do hope somebody else finds all this useful at some point. There is one part in all of this I still don't understand: If you have a DataGridView bound to an entity collection (like my PhoneCollection)... ...and then you grab a single item from the collection (in my case, a Phone ...

Okkaayy, after much trial and error, I have something that seems to work. I'm creating a contact database. My main entity is a Person. The related entities are Phone, Address, Email, etc. There is a form that allows users to view and edit Person data. The related tables are represented by read-only DataGridViews. For example, there is a ...

I am sure I am missing something but after searching without any result I have to post this. I have a winform with databindings similar to this:             this.ceInactive.DataBindings.Add(new Binding(''Checked'', _company, CompanyMetadata.PropertyNames.Inactive, ...

This is what I have been trying so far. But hitting add only creates a new record in the collectino but it doesn't move the combobox or the textboxes to the new record. but even  after I manually select the new entry with the combobox I get an error on inserting a null value into the SettingsID field. I do enter it though via the ...

David is spot on as per usual;) I deal with this in ASP.NET databinding all the time. For instance there is a combo box of widgets. The client will quite often want the top choice to be -Select One-, or All Widgets. As stated if you actually databind you cannot add these at runtime, it will throw an exception or simply be tossed out depending on ...

I would like to see the generated entity classes implement the INotifyPropertyChanged interface and all properties notify via the event when they have changed.  This is a huge time saver when databinding in windows as it means that bound controls are automatically updated if any property they are bound to changes in code or anywhere ...

This is a request.  I am on a team writing a Window Forms project using databinding and ES.  The combination works great.  The only issue currently is when there are no rows in the collection and I want to add the first.  What is the best practice for adding the first row? Here is my current code: On form load:: Code: ...