Displaying Data with the DetailsView Control

A DetailsView control renders an HTML table that displays the contents of a single database record. The DetailsView supports both declarative and programmatic databinding.

For example, the page in Listing 12.1 displays a record from the Movies database table, using declarative databinding (see Figure 12.1).

Figure 12.1. Displaying a movie record.

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Listing 12.1. ShowDetailsView.aspx

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In Listing 12.1, the SQL Select statement associated with the SqlDataSource control retrieves the first movie from the ...

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