Or do you populate your form controls manually by a method?
Is either considered a best practice?
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Or do you populate your form controls manually by a method?
Is either considered a best practice?
Generally, if data binding business or DAL objects is possible, I would use it. The old axiom holds true: The most error-free and reliable line of code is often the one you didn’t have to write. (Bear in mind, however, that you need to know exactly how that data binding occurs, what its overhead is, and you have to be able to trust the framework and your source objects to be error-free!)
You would, as others have mentioned, manually populate if you needed specific functionality not brought to bear directly by binding, or if there is an issue with data binding business/DAL objects (as occasionally happens with certain 3rd-party controls).