Hitchhikers Guide to Visual Studio and SQL Server: Best Practice Architectures and Examples, 7th Edition (Microsoft Windows Server System Series)

Yes, there are a lot of other controls available to Windows Forms data access applications, and even more available to ASP.NET applications. However, I simply don't have the bandwidth to document, illustrate, and explain each and every one of these. There are other resources out there, so be sure to consult my "Suggested Reading" list for more details. The Visual Studio tools suite keeps expanding, and, for the most part, this simply makes it easier for developers to provide richer UI without adding custom controls and a lot of code to support them. That's the whole idea behind controlsthey encapsulate commonly used operations into black-box or generated code blocks incorporated into your application. Thankfully, Visual Studio is generating more code and depending on fewer black boxes to make developers jobs easier.