This article has been excerpted from the book "A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C#".
DataView and DataViewManager define the ListChanged event, which occurs when a row is added to or deleted from a DataView and DataViewManager object. The ListChangedEventHandler method handles the ListChanged event; it's as follows:
public delegate void ListChangedEventHandler(object sender, ListChangedEventArges e);
Where the sender is the source of the event and e is ListChangedEventArgs, which contains the event data. Table 9-8 defines ListChangedEventArgs members.
Table 9-8. The ListChangedEventArgs members
MEMBER DESCRIPTION
ListChangedType
Returns the way that lists changed
NewIndex
Returns the new index of the item in the list
OldIndex
Returns the old index of the item in the list
Listing 9-15 shows the OnListChanged event handler.
Listing 9-15.The OnListChanged event handler
  1. protected static void OnListChanged(object sender, System.ComponentModel.ListChangedEventArgs args) {
  2. MessageBox.Show("ListChanged: Type = " + args.ListChangedType +
  3. ", OldIndex = " + args.OldIndex +
  4. ", NewIndex = " + args.NewIndex);
  5. }
To test this application, you can create a Windows application and write the code in Listing 9-16 on the form load or a button-click event handler. As you can see from Listing 9-16, the code creates a DataView object, adds a new row to DataView, and then removes the first row from DataView. The adding and removing of rows is responsible for firing the OnListChanged event handler.
Listing 9-16. Adding, updating, and deleting rows of a DataView
  1. private void Form1_load(object sender, System.EventArgs e) {
  2. OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection();
  3. string strDSN = "provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" + "Data Source= C:/Northwind.mdb";
  4. conn.ConnectionString = strDSN;
  5. string sql = "SELECT EmployeeID, LastName, FirstName FROM Employees";
  6. // Opening Connection
  7. conn.Open();
  8. // Create a data Adapter
  9. OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(sql, conn);
  10. // Create and fill DataSet
  11. DataSet ds = new DataSet();
  12. da.Fill(ds, "Employees");
  13. DataView dv = ds.Tables["Employees"].DefaultView;
  14. // Add DataView Event Handlers
  15. dv.ListChanged += new System.ComponentModel.ListChangedEventHandler(OnListChanged);
  16. // Add a row to the DataView
  17. dv.AllowEdit = true;
  18. DataRowView rw = dv.AddNew();
  19. rw.BeginEdit();
  20. rw["FirstName"] = "FName";
  21. rw["LastName"] = "LName";
  22. rw.EndEdit();
  23. // Remove a row from the DataView
  24. if (dv.Count > 0) {
  25. dv.Delete(0);
  26. dv[0].Row.AcceptChanges();
  27. }
  28. // Close the connection
  29. conn.Close();
  30. }
CAUTION: As you can see from Listing 9-16, the AcceptChanges() method removes a row permanently from the database. If you don't want to remove the row, call the RejectChanges() method.
The output of Listing 9-16 looks like figure 9-11 and 9-12.
Figure-9.11.jpg
Figure 9-11. The ListChange events output after adding a new row
Figure-9.12.jpg
Figure 9-12. The ListChanged events output after deleting a row

Conclusion

Hope this article would have helped you in understanding working with DataView and DataViewManager Events in ADO.NET. See other articles on the website also for further reference.
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