Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

CHAPTER 4 ■ DATA BINDING WITH ASP.NET 99
Sorting: This makes the columns clickable, enabling the data to be sorted based on
clicking the column.
Selection: This adds a Select hyperlink, enabling an event to be fired when the user
selects a row of data.
You can see an example of the postal code filter application using a GridView control
in Figure 4-28.
Figure 4-28. Your application including paging, sorting, and selection
You have all this functionality, and you still haven’t written a line of code, thanks to
the GridView control and ADO.NET data binding!
Using the DataList Control
The GridView is a large control with a wealth of functionality, and in the previous section,
you barely scratched the surface of what you can do with it. If you just want to return a
list of data and codelessly control how that list appears, you can achieve this with the
DataList control. This control is a server control, found on the Data tab of your Toolbox.