[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Using Progress.Data.BindingSource for non-GUI Purposes (on Windows)

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Laura Stern

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The ProBindingSource is meant to get data from an ABL table and make it available to .NET, not the other way around - i.e., read data from .NET and copy it into an ABL table. So I'm really not sure how you would use this for your use-case. No you should not use the Progress.Data.DataSource directly. This could change at any time and is not meant to be used by ABL programmers. I don't see what that buys you anyway. Avoid classes like System.Windows.Forms"??? What does that have to do with the BindingSource? Plus, what BindingSource overhead are you talking about? Anyway, I don't believe you can use Progress.Data.DataSource w/o using a BindingSource, period. One refers to the other. If there is no BindingSource, it will not work. Why are you worried about the size of the NetUI.dll assembly?

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