In most cases, the DataView is used with ASP.NET
or Windows Forms data binding, as described in Chapter 12. However, you can also use a
DataView when programmatically modifying or
manipulating a subset of data from a DataTable. In
this case, you can access each row in the DataView
through a DataRowView object. The
DataRowView is a view on a single row and is
similar to the DataRow class, with an overloaded
indexer that allows you to retrieve column values by name or index
number.
The DataRowView doesn’t provide
any ability to customize the formatting of individual values. To
apply custom formatting, you may need to handle data binding events,
as described in Chapter 12.