Displaying Data with the DataList and Repeater Controls:
Step 5-Rendering Specific Markup with the Repeater Control
This VIDEO TUTORIAL will examine the display of Categories information using a Repeater control. We have been introduced to Repeater control for listing the navigation menu in the ‘Master Pages and Site Navigation’ tutorial. When we examine the source of an .aspx web page that contains a GridView or a DataList controls, we will quickly determine that the mark up emitted by these data web controls contains ‘table’, ‘tr’ and ‘td’ html tags. However, if we do not want our data web controls to generate these preceding tags and to achieve a greater degree of customization of the emitted html, then, we have to use Repeater controls. In this step of the video, a repeater control is added to Basics.aspx web page to display Category information by utilizing an ObjectDataSource control that invokes the GetCategories () method of the CategoriesBLL business object. After binding the ObjectDataSource to the Repeater, the emitted markup is further customized. For detailed information and source code for this step, please refer to the original article.

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