Working with Data Sources
Web Forms includes a set of data source controls that operate on a range of different types of data. This range runs from simple collections of .NET objects through to the Entity Framework. The complete set is described in Table 18-1.
For our purposes, three of these controls are particularly interesting: LinqDataSource, SqlDataSource, and EntityDataSource. We'll start with EntityDataSource because it provides a simple mechanism for achieving a very common goal: integrating data from a database into a web application.
The other data sources are perfectly functional, but the ones I describe are the most likely to be useful ...
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