ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Binding to a DataReader

Typically, you use the ObjectDataSource control to represent database data. The .NET Framework provides you with multiple ways of representing data. This section discusses how you can use an ObjectDataSource to represent a DataReader.

Note

The different ADO.NET objects are compared and contrasted in Chapter 19, “Building Data Access Components with ADO.NET.”

The ADO.NET DataReader object provides you with a fast, read-only representation of database data. If you need to retrieve database records in the fastest possible way, you should use a DataReader object.

For example, the component in Listing 18.3, the MovieDataReader component, returns all the movies from the Movies database table by using the SqlDataReader object. ...