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Notes 8.5 Data-Bound Controls

ASP.NET provides a rich set of data-bound server controls. These controls are easy to use and
provide a Rapid Application Development (RAD) Web development. You can categorize these
controls in two groups: single-item data-bound control and multi-item data-bound controls.

You use the single-item data-bound controls to display the value of a single item of a database
table. These controls do not provide direct binding with the data source. The highlighted part
of given table shows an item of a database table. You use the Text, Caption, or Value property
of these controls to show the data a field.

Table 8.1: Data-bound Controls

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8.5.1 An Item
We use the multi-item data bound controls to display the entire or a partial table. These controls
provide direct binding to the data source. We use the Data Source property of these controls to
bind a database table to these controls (Table 8.2).

Table 8.2: Multiple-item Controls

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Some examples of multi-item data-bound controls are DataGrid, ListBox, DataList, DropDownList,
and so on some of the data bound controls (See Figure 8.1).

Figure 8.1: Data-bound Control

In ASP.NET, you create these controls using a <asp:controlName> tag.

describes some common data-bound server-side controls

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