ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Working with Other Controls

You can bind any control in ASP.NET Framework to the data items represented by a data source. Imagine, for example, that you want to display a photo gallery. In that case, you might want to bind a set of Image controls to a data source.

You can bind any ASP.NET control to a data item by adding the control to a template. For example, the page in Listing 8.5 automatically displays all the pictures in a folder named Photos (see Figure 8.4).

Figure 8.4. Binding images to a data source.

Listing 8.5. ShowPhotos.aspx