Data Selection Query with Visual Basic.NET

This chapter provides a detailed description and discussion in how to use Visual Studio.NET 2017 tools and wizards to build simple but efficient database applications without touching complicated coding. It presents a preview of a completed sample database application to give readers a feeling about how a database application works and what it can do. When developing and building Windows Forms App (.NET Framework) application that needs to interface to database, a powerful and simple way is to use the design tools and wizards provided by Visual Studio.NET. The chapter contains a lot of hiding codes that are created by Visual Basic.NET automatically when using those design tools and wizards. It covers an advanced technique, the runtime object method, in developing and building professional data driven applications. Detailed discussions and descriptions about how to build professional and practical database applications using this runtime method are provided combined with four real projects.