Programming Data-Driven Web Applications with ASP.NET

Summary

In this chapter, you put to use the knowledge you gained from Chapters 1 through 4. You used the ASP.NET Managed Providers to retrieve data from a data store, and you learned the following:

• The basics of the DataGrid control

• Data binding

• Binding to a DataTable in your DataSet

• Binding to arrays

• Binding to collections

• Binding to properties

• Binding to XML files

In this chapter, you learned the basics of the DataGrid server control. The next chapter will show you some of the extended functionality of the DataGrid, including how to alter the output appearance, sort data, and create a paging DataGrid.