Templated Data Access Control - Course ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 - Part 45 | .net courses

Duration:  21 minutes

Summary: In this video, we discuss template data access controls. Some of the controls depend on templates to display data. You use the templates to format the data the way you like. One of those controls is the Repeater. We start by creating a repeater control. The data source of that controls is the AdventureWorks database (Address and StateProvince tables). We build our data source and the select statement by joining the two tables. However, if you try to view the page at this stage, you will not see anything. We need to build our template to view the data. We add an ItemTemplate element inside the Repeater control. We use the Eval expression to evaluate the values of the columns and display the one row at a time. We use another version of the Eval expression to create a formatted string within a hyperlink to link to another page passing the postal code as a query string.

Methodology of the development of example: Good coding standard and simplified design to illustrate the key points.

Technology Used: ASP.NET and Visual Studio 2010

Keyword: ASP.NET 4, Visual Studio 2010, Repeater Control, Eval, ConnectionString, SelectCommand, HyperLink, DataSource.