Chapter 10. Data Bound Controls
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ASP.NET has three powerful data bound controls that make your job as an ASP developer much easier. There is a Repeater control, which enables you to do some pretty simple outputting of data. There is a DataList control that is more powerful and enables you to do more complex output. And there is a DataGrid control, which gives you great flexibility in presenting data to users and allowing them to edit the data.
These data controls can take data that is in some sort of collection, such as an array or a recordset, and render it to the HTML stream. Although you could do this all yourself by hand simply by using Response.Write() ...
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