The Simple Web Controls

The simple web controls support binding a single column to a single property. Just about every property of these controls can be bound to different columns. We already looked at the data bindings editor earlier. Let’s look again (Figure 9.13).

Figure 9.13. The data bindings editor for the TextBox.

Notice that you can bind to data columns, but you can also bind to page elements. If you scroll down the simple binding tree view you will see what I mean (see Figure 9.14).

Figure 9.14. The binding tree showing the page items.

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