Editing WinFS (section)

===RAV===
WinFS supports creating ''Rich Application Views'' (RAV) by aggregating different data in a virtual table format. Unlike [[database view]], where each individual element can only be a scalar value, RAVs can have complex Items or even collections of Items. The actual data can be across multiple data types or instances and can even be retrieved by traversing relationships.<ref name="DotNetShow" /> RAVs are intrinsically paged (dividing the entire set of data into smaller ''pages'' containing disconnected subsets of the data) by the WinFS runtime. The page size is defined during creation of the view and the WinFS API exposes methods to iterate over the pages. RAVs also supports modification of the view according to different grouping parameters. Views can also be queried against.