why use databinding ?

[LB]

Reading the http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/winforms/
I'm trying to see the advantage of using "simple data binding".

Let's say I have a treeview loaded from a collection called moList.
On form load, the treeview is loaded. And I bind my textbox to one on the
property
txtLength.DataB indings.Add("Te xt", moList, "Length")
On the TreeView1 click event, I add the following line :
Me.BindingConte xt(moList).Posi tion = TreeView1.Selec tedNode.Index
Everything is displayed on the form.

But why should I use the DataBindings.Ad d and BindingContext ?

Couldn't I use directly on the click event directly the following :
txtLength.text = moList.Item(Tre eView1.Selected Node.Index).Len gth

What's the advantage ?
Thank you for your time

[Roger]

if you have more than one textbox and maybe other controls than a textbox you
still only need : "Me.BindingCont ext(moList).Pos ition =
TreeView1.Selec tedNode.Index"

in your case you would endup with one line of code per control..

and then you also need the other way around , send data back from the
controls to your datasource. which would add another line of code per control
for you..

with databinding you only get the above line for navigation..

//Roger

"LB" wrote:

Reading the http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/winforms/
I'm trying to see the advantage of using "simple data binding".

Let's say I have a treeview loaded from a collection called moList.
On form load, the treeview is loaded. And I bind my textbox to one on the
property
txtLength.DataB indings.Add("Te xt", moList, "Length")
On the TreeView1 click event, I add the following line :
Me.BindingConte xt(moList).Posi tion = TreeView1.Selec tedNode.Index
Everything is displayed on the form.

But why should I use the DataBindings.Ad d and BindingContext ?

Couldn't I use directly on the click event directly the following :
txtLength.text = moList.Item(Tre eView1.Selected Node.Index).Len gth

What's the advantage ?
Thank you for your time