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[. . . ] It opens whenever you create or edit an ABL Form, ABL Dialog, ABL MDI Form, ABL User Control, or ABL Inherited Control object in OpenEdge Architect. Each of these objects is an ABL class that inherits and extends a . NET form or control class. [. . . ] Depending on the object type, Visual Designer allows you to build the class by dragging and dropping components, setting properties, and using wizards, which generates code for the class, and you can switch to code view to add code manually using the OpenEdge Editor. For an introduction to the Visual Designer see, Introducing the OpenEdge Architect Visual Designer. For a series of video tutorials on working with the GUI for . NET in OpenEdge Architect, see OpenEdge Architect Videos: Using Visual Designer and GUI for . NET in OpenEdge Architect. Task Summary Information Source Understanding the code generated for an inherited . NET form Visual Designer Manuals: automatically generates code GUI for . NET when you create a new ABL Programming Form (ABL-derived . NET · Creating form). The following custom . NET forms and controls information describes some of this generated code. OpenEdge Architect Online Help: · Code associated with a Visual Designer component Video Tutorials: Generated by Clearspace on 2010-12-17-05:00 1 OpenEdge GUI for . NET Task Map · Creating a Form and a ProBinding Source Adding a ProBindingSource to a form For . NET controls that Manuals: support data binding using a System. Windows. Forms. BindingSource Introducing the OpenEdge class, you can bind supported ABL Architect Visual Designer data to these controls by adding · Data binding a Progress. Data. BindingSource (ProBindingSource) instance to any form that contains instances of the controls. The Visual Designer provides several ways to add a Video Tutorials: ProBindingSource to a form. Examples of these controls include the Microsoft Label, TextBox, and ComboBox or the Infragistics UltraTextbox, UltraCombo, and UltraListView. Information Source Manuals: GUI for . NET Programming · Buffer binding example (TextBoxes) Introducing the OpenEdge Architect Visual Designer · Creating the Purchase Order Window (examples of various label and editor Ultra Controls) Video Tutorials: · Adding Field-Level Controls to a Form Binding both single-level and hierarchical data to a grid with a ProBindingSource You can bind database tables, temptables, queries, and ProDataSets to grid controls. Examples of grid controls include the Microsoft DataGridView and the Infragistics UltraGrid. You can use multiple DataGridView controls to bind hierarchical data from a ProDataSet, or you can use a single UltraGrid control, which supports multi-level data binding. Manuals: GUI for . NET Programming · Query binding example (UltraGrid) · ProDataSet binding example (UltraGrid) Introducing the OpenEdge Architect Visual Designer · Creating the Customer Window (UltraGrid example) Generated by Clearspace on 2010-12-17-05:00 6 OpenEdge GUI for . NET Task Map Video Tutorials: · Adding a Microsoft Grid Control to a Form (DataGridView) · Building a ProBindingSource from a ProDataSet Definitio (UltraGrid) Binding data to a tree control You can bind data to tree controls, such as the Microsoft TreeView and Infragistics UltraTree control. However, the Microsoft TreeView does not support convenient data binding using a ProBindingSource. Instead, you can create your own ABL data modeling classes and use them as part of an ABL-derived Microsoft TreeView control to bind ABL data to the TreeView. Manuals: Introducing the OpenEdge Architect Visual Designer · Creating the Department Window (UltraTree example) Video Tutorials: · Creating a Databound TreeView as an Inherited Control, Part 1 · Creating a Databound TreeView as an Inherited Control, Part 2 Binding multiple controls to a single data source You can bind multiple UI controls to a single data source by binding a specified data element to each control using the DataMember or DataBindings property of each control, or by binding the entire data source attached to the ProBindingSource to each control using its DataSource property (if the control has one). Manuals: GUI for . NET Programming · . NET data binding · Buffer binding example (TextBoxes) · Using the . NET DataMember property Batching with a ProBindingSource Batching allows you to set up a ProBindingSource to automatically retrieve more data when it has reached the end of its current result set and is being asked to get the next data element. You can set up Manuals: GUI for . NET Programming · ProBindingSource properties (Batching) Generated by Clearspace on 2010-12-17-05:00 7 OpenEdge GUI for . NET Task Map · ProBindingSource events (OffEnd) · Using the OffEnd event (batching) batching using the ProBindingSource Batch property and OffEnd event. Sorting data in a control with a ProBindingSource Sorting data in controls can be accomplished in different ways depending on the native support for sorting in the control. [. . . ] You can set up Manuals: GUI for . NET Programming · ProBindingSource properties (Batching) Generated by Clearspace on 2010-12-17-05:00 7 OpenEdge GUI for . NET Task Map · ProBindingSource events (OffEnd) · Using the OffEnd event (batching) batching using the ProBindingSource Batch property and OffEnd event. Sorting data in a control with a ProBindingSource Sorting data in controls can be accomplished in different ways depending on the native support for sorting in the control. For example, the Infragistics UltraGrid can manage its own sorting operations while the Micrsoft DataGrid relies on its data source (in this case, its ProBindingSource) to do the sorting. Manuals: GUI for . NET Programming · ProBindingSource properties (AutoSort) · ProBindingSource events (SortRequest) · Sorting Video Tutorials: · Sorting Data with . NET Controls and a ProBindingSource in Visual Designer, Part 1 · Sorting Data with . NET Controls and a ProBindingSource in Visual Designer, Part 2 · Sorting Data with . NET Controls and a ProBindingSource in Visual Designer, Part 3 · Sorting Data with . NET Controls and a ProBindingSource in Visual Designer, Part 4 Doing CRUD operations with a ProBindingSource The methods, properties, and events of a ProBindingSource support the full range of create, read, update, and delete operations on the records of a database. Manuals: GUI for . NET Programming · ProBindingSource properties · ProBindingSource methods · Example of an updatable grid Handling events for a ProBindingSource The ProBindingSource extends the Manuals: System. Windows. Forms. BindingSource class with several additional events. [. . . ]