17.1. The GridView
The GridView is an extremely flexible grid control that displays a multicolumn table. Each record in your data source becomes a separate row in the grid. Each field in the record becomes a separate column in the grid.
The GridView is the most powerful of the three rich data controls you'll learn about in this chapter, because it comes equipped with the most ready-made functionality. This functionality includes features for automatic paging, sorting, selecting, and editing. The GridView is also the only data control you'll consider in this chapter that can show more than one record at a time.
17.1.1. Automatically Generating Columns
The GridView provides a DataSource property for the data object you want to display, much like ...
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