Allowing the Selection of Multiple Items
The DataGrid control does not support the selection of multiple items in the current page, much less the whole data source. Nevertheless, a lot of Web sites out there provide this functionality. For example, Web sites that let the user create a mailbox show messages in a table of rows. Each row contains a check box for selection, and a link at the bottom of the page allows the user to execute actions on the selected rows. In ASP.NET, the table can easily be obtained using the DataGrid control. After you add an extra column with a check box and figure out how to expose the information behind a row, you are really close to creating a multiselection grid.
A multiselection grid is relatively easy to build ...
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