21.7. Case Study: Connecting to a Database in ASP.NET
Many Web sites allow users to provide feedback about the Web site in a guestbook. Typically, users click a link on the Web site’s home page to request the guestbook page. This page usually consists of an XHTML form that contains fields for the user’s name, e-mail address, message/feedback and so on. Data submitted on the guestbook form is then stored in a database located on the Web server’s machine.
In this section, we create a guestbook Web Form application. This example’s GUI is slightly more complex than that of earlier examples. It contains a GridView ASP.NET data control, as shown in Fig. 21.33, which displays all the entries in the guestbook in tabular format. We explain how to create ...
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