Using a DataWindow involves two main steps:
Use the DataWindow painter to create or edit a DataWindow object.
In the painter, you define the data source, presentation style, and all other properties of the object, such as display formats, validation rules, sorting and filtering criteria, and graphs.
In your development environment, put a DataWindow control in a window, visual user object, or form or a DataWindow container in a Web page and associate a DataWindow object with the control or container.
It is through the control or container that your application communicates with the DataWindow object you created in the DataWindow painter. You write code to manipulate the DataWindow control or container and the DataWindow object it contains. Typically, your code retrieves and updates data, changes the appearance of the data, handles errors, and shares data between DataWindow controls.
