ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Creating Templated Databound Controls

In this section, you learn how to build templated databound controls. A databound control can be bound to a DataSource control such as the SqlDataSource or ObjectDataSource controls.

The ASP.NET Framework provides you with a number of base classes that you can use when creating a custom databound control. So, let’s look at some tables and figures. Table 37.1 lists the base control classes for all the standard ASP.NET databound controls. Figure 37.4 displays the inheritance hierarchy of all the new databound controls in ASP.NET Framework. Typically, you inherit from one of the leaf nodes. You create a control that derives from the base CompositeDataBoundControl, HierarchicalDataBoundControl, or ListControl ...