Chapter 1. Data Bound .NET Controls
Most software applications involve, in one way or another, data access and reporting. Web applications in particular must perform these two functions, so Web programmers are looking for any automated (or even semi-automated) method of associating rows of data with graphical HTML elements such as drop-down lists or tables. The answer to this growing demand for automatic binding between data sources and graphical elements is .NET data bound controls.
Data bound controls play a key role in the development of .NET applications because they allow you to associate controls and their individual properties with one or more fields in any .NET-compliant data source. The power of .NET is the versatility of these data ...
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