Items Source Configuration Wizard

• May 27, 2025

The Items Source Configuration Wizard is a common way to bind data-aware DevExpress controls (such as the GridControl, TreeListControl or PivotGridControl) to a data source. This wizard allows you to establish a connection to various types of data sources such as ADO.NET DataSets, SQL databases, OLAP cubes, etc.

Important

Items Source Configuration Wizard is not supported in the WPF XAML Designer for .NET Framework for Visual Studio v16.7 and newer.

Topics in this sections describe how to bind the PivotGridControl to all available data source types.

• ADO.NET Typed DataSet
• Unbound Data Source
• Entity Framework
• Entity Framework (EF) Core
• LINQ to SQL
• WCF Data Services
• OData V4 Services
• XPO Data Source
• OLAP Cube
• IList and IEnumerable Data Sources
• ICollectionView Specifics