Chapter 20. Data-Bound and Templated Controls
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In the previous chapter, we built a few controls completely from scratch—that is, not inheriting from existing Web controls, but simply using the base class for ASP.NET server controls as a starting point. Although they are effective and functional, both the GaugeBar and BarChart controls lack a few key features. More often than not, real-world controls need to be data-bindable and support templates. The importance of being a data-bindable control surfaced clearly in Chapter 6 (“Creating Bindable Grids of Data”) and Chapter 9 (“ASP.NET Iterative Controls”), in which we thoroughly discussed and explored the DataGrid, Repeater, and DataList ...
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