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A typical Delphi app might have done that, but a selling point of Delphi was that it had data binding. Connect the TDB* vies to a TDataSource, and it would sho
by benibela 6y ago
A typical Delphi app might have done that, but a selling point of Delphi was that it had data binding.
Connect the TDB* vies to a TDataSource, and it would show the values of a database, without requiring manual updates.
- int_19h 6y agoVB6 and WinForms also had data binding. But in practice I've rarely seen it used, except for data grids.
- mattmanser 6y agoWPF has databinding available today, it's not gone away. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop-wpf/data/data-binding-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop-wpf/data/dat...
- int_19h 6y agoFor WPF, data binding is idiomatic. It wasn't back in those days. My point is basically that the tooling that we use for desktop UI development is still very much rooted in the RAD era - but as best practices around it changed, we dropped the "RAD" label. It was a gradual evolution, though.