Special Edition Using Microsoft® Expression® Web

Chapter 35. Accessing Data with ASP.NET 2.0

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• ASP.NET 2.0 Data Source Controls

• Displaying Data with ASP.NET 2.0

• Editing Data with ASP.NET 2.0

• Troubleshooting

• Lagniappe: Creating a Master/Detail View

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ASP.NET 2.0 Data Source Controls

The previous chapters on ASP.NET have shown how it’s possible to design some pretty impressive ASP.NET Web pages without writing any code at all. It may surprise you to know that you can also create some powerful data access pages in ASP.NET 2.0 without writing any code. The functionality for doing so is encapsulated within the ASP.NET data source controls.

Note

ASP.NET data source controls are located in the Data section of the ASP.NET Controls Toolbox.

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