ASP.NET Dynamic Data Unleashed

Chapter 3. Field Templates

In This Chapter

• Read-Only Templates

• Field Value Display Format

• Edit and Insert Mode Templates

• Field Value Edit Format

• Changing Existing Field Template

• Data Binding

• Creating a New Field Template

• Field Template Lookup Rules

• Built-in Field Templates

Enterprise applications deal with employees, managers, emergency contacts, prospects, customers, suppliers, and vendors—in other words, people and organizations, who all have names, addresses, and phone numbers. Implementing data entry logic for these attributes is repetitive, and for years, the ASP.NET developers have been developing user controls to reduce the code duplication. It is common to see user controls with text boxes and validators for entering ...