C H A P T E R 18
Using Web Forms Data Sources
One of the key strengths of Web Forms is the ease with which you can display and manipulate data in a web application. In this chapter, we are going to look at one of the key enablers for the Web Forms data features: data sources.
You use data sources to being data into your application. Web Forms includes some built-in data source controls to make this a simple process for a wide range of data types. You can work as easily with objects created in memory as you can with those in SQL databases. I'll introduce the most useful data source controls and also demonstrate how to work without them to get some advanced results.
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