Chapter 21. Displaying Data from a Database
IN THIS CHAPTER
Using Data Controls to Display Data
Configuring the Data Source
The preceding chapter presented an overview of data access in ASP.NET. In this chapter, you’ll put that knowledge into practice and create a new web form that will be used to display data from a Microsoft Access database.
Note
To work through the examples in this chapter, download the sample project for this chapter at the Que Publishing website at www.quepublishing.com.
The data we’ll be working with is located in the products.mdb
Access database located in the App_Data folder of the sample web application. If you don’t want to use the sample database, ...
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