Chapter 13. Using the Repeater and DataList Controls

Both the Repeater and DataList controls—the subjects of this chapter—enable you to display a set of data items at a time. For example, you can use these controls to display all the rows contained in a database table.

The Repeater control is entirely template-driven. You can format the rendered output of the control in any way that you want. For example, you can use the Repeater control to display records in a bulleted list, a set of HTML tables, or even in a comma-delimited list.

The DataList control is also template-driven. However, unlike the Repeater control, the default behavior of the DataList control ...

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