Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 3.5

Working with the ListView Control

The ListView control makes it easy to handle common data-based operations, such as insert, update, delete, or sorting. All that you have to do is place buttons in the layout template and associate buttons with command names. Buttons can be global to the list (such as insert, sort, and page buttons) or specific to a particular item (such as update and delete buttons). Command names are just strings that are assigned to the CommandName property of the Button control.

So far, we have considered only scenarios with relatively static and noninteractive templates. It is definitely possible, though, to use the ListView control to create rich user interfaces that allow in-place editing, selection of items, paging, and ...