October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1920 pages
73h 55m
English
Content preview from ASP.NET 4 Unleashed
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Chapter 37. Building Templated Databound Controls
The ASP.NET Framework is a framework. If you don’t like anything about the framework, you always have the option of extending it. In particular, if you discover that the standard databound controls in the framework don’t do everything you need, you can create a custom databound control.
In this chapter, you learn how to create custom controls that work like the ASP.NET GridView, DetailsView, ListView, and FormView controls. In the first part of this chapter, you learn how to create controls that support templates. You learn how to implement controls that support both standard templates and two-way ...