The DataGrid Control
The DataGrid control renders a multi-column, fully templated grid and is by far the most versatile of all data bound controls. The user interface it provides closely resembles a Microsoft Excel worksheet. Despite its rather advanced programming interface and full set of attributes, DataGrid simply generates an HTML table with interspersed links to provide interactive functionality such as sorting and pagination commands.
With the DataGrid control, you can create simple data bound columns that show data retrieved from a data source, template columns that let you design the layout of cell contents, and last but not least, command-based columns that allow you to add specific functionality to a grid. In the next chapters, I’ll ...
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