Hour 23. Displaying the Guestbook's Contents

In Hour 21, “Devising a Plan for the Guestbook Application,” we determined that for our online guestbook application, we needed to create two ASP.NET Web pages. The first one, AddEntry.aspx, which was created in the previous hour, allows a user to add a new entry to the guestbook. The second one, ViewGuestbook.aspx, displays the existing guestbook entries to the user through a pageable DataGrid. This hour focuses on creating this second ASP.NET Web page.

Like the last hour, “Allowing Users to Add Guestbook Entries,” this hour is divided into three main sections. In the first section, “Implementing the User Interface,” we'll examine turning the user interface ideas discussed in Hour 21 into an actual ...

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