ASP.NET Developer's JumpStart

Adding Features to the DataGrid Control

In this chapter, you'll place a DataGrid control on a page and add features. Specifically, you will perform the following tasks:

• Bind a DataGrid control to an ADO.NET DataSet
• Add numeric formatting to a currency field
• Add paging so users can move through subsets of the data
• Select an individual row
• Sort the data by clicking a column header

Figure 16.1 shows the finished page you'll be building as you work through this chapter.

Figure 16.1. It's easy to create a bound table using the DataGrid control. To the browser, it's simply an HTML table with code added in for interactivity.

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