October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1920 pages
73h 55m
English
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Chapter 13. Using the Repeater and DataList Controls
Both the Repeater and DataList controls—the subjects of this chapter—enable you to display a set of data items at a time. For example, you can use these controls to display all the rows contained in a database table.
The Repeater control is entirely template-driven. You can format the rendered output of the control in any way that you want. For example, you can use the Repeater control to display records in a bulleted list, a set of HTML tables, or even in a comma-delimited list.
The DataList control is also template-driven. However, unlike the Repeater control, the default behavior of the DataList control ...