Question

So far, I found C# on SQL Server impressively easy to develop with (when relying on the IDEs to walk you through completion).

So it comes as no surprise that I expect a feature that may or may not be available with Visual Studio 2010 & SQL Server 2008 Express:

Instead of manually dragging TextBoxes from the ToolBar into the Windows Form, then typing their names, etc. to associate them with a fields/columns in a table… is it possible to tell Visual Studio to automatically populate the form with all columns from a particular table?

If so, how does one accomplishes that?

Answer 1

You need to look at DataBinding to do this easily. Add your database as a new DataSource for your project, then you can drag parts of it to your form.

See here for a tutorial.