ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Binding to a Component

Let’s start with a simple component. The component in Listing 18.1 is named MovieCollection and contains one method named GetMovies(), which returns a collection of movie titles.

Listing 18.1. MovieCollection.cs

You can use the page in Listing 18.2 to display the list of movies returned by the GetMovies() method in a GridView control. The page contains an ObjectDataSource control that represents the MovieCollection component.

Listing 18.2. ShowMovieCollection.aspx

In Listing 18.2, the ObjectDataSource control includes two ...