ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated

3. Data Source and Data Display Controls In the previous chapter, you saw how easy it can be to construct rich data-driven Web pages quickly, and integrate them into a site. The created pages have a great deal of functionality, but due to th...

Databases and Connections Most Web sites will have some form of database behind them, whether to store a product catalog or just to manage user logins. This often requires a full installation of SQL Server on your development machine, but with ASP...

Data Source Controls Chapter 2 showed how easy data source controls are to use, but there is more to them than their ease of use. Data source controls provide a declarative way to define not only the connection to a data store, but also the comman...

Data Display and Edit Controls In the previous chapter you saw how easy it was to configure a grid to use a data source control to not only display the data, but to also provide editing. These topics are worthy of discussion in more detail, and th...

Summary In this chapter, we have looked at the basic features of the SqlDataSource and data editing controls: the GridView, DetailsView, and FormView. Together these provide a simple, declarative way of displaying and editing data, and with their ...