Beginning Web Development, Silverlight, and ASP.NET AJAX

CHAPTER 12 ■ AJAX EXTENSIONS FOR ASP.NET 297
Now that you have your data connection, it’s pretty easy to tie a DataGrid up to it to
view the results of the query.
Drag and drop a GridView control onto the page, and open its Tasks pane (see
Figure 12-15 for details).
Figure 12-15. Adding a GridView to your application
Select SqlDataSource1 from the Choose Data Source drop-down, and you’ll see the
grid reconfigure itself to the fields that the data source exposes. Enable paging, sorting,
and selection by selecting their check boxes in the Tasks pane, as shown in Figure 12-16.
Figure 12-16. Binding the grid to the data source