ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Chapter 11. Using the GridView Control

In This Chapter

• GridView Control Fundamentals

• Using Fields with the Gridview Control

• Working with GridView Control Events

• Extending the GridView Control

• Summary

The GridView control is the workhorse of ASP.NET Framework. It is one of the most feature-rich and complicated of all the ASP.NET controls. The GridView control enables you to display, select, sort, page, and edit data items such as database records.

Note

The GridView control supersedes the DataGrid control included in the ASP.NET 1.x Framework. The DataGrid control is still included in ASP.NET 4 for backward compatibility, but you should use the GridView instead because it is a more powerful control.

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