Using Fields with the GridView
Control
In all the sample code in the previous section, the GridView
control was used to render automatically an HTML table that contains a list of data items. However, there is a problem with allowing GridView
to render its columns automatically. The result does not look professional.
For example, the column headers are simply the names of the underlying database columns. Displaying the column name EntryDate
as a column header seems, well, a little cheesy. We really need to specify custom column headers.
Another problem with enabling GridView
to render its columns automatically is that you give up any control over column formatting. For example, the BoxOfficeTotals
column displays as a decimal amount without ...
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