Use ASP.NET data Web controls to manipulate data before it's rendered

Overview This sample chapter, taken from ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start, examines how to alter data being displayed based on its value.

Data Web controls make it easy to display data on ASP.NET Web pages. If you want to display information from a database with perhaps some stylistic HTML added, you can set the data Web control's DataSource property to an applicable object and then call the DataBind() method. Learn a couple techniques for altering data prior to displaying it.

This sample chapter, taken from ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start, discusses how to use ASP.NET data Web controls to manipulate data before it's rendered. The chapter covers the following topics:

• Using Custom Functions and Data-Binding Syntax to Modify the Display of Data Based on Its Value
• Using the ItemDataBound Event to Modify the Display of Data Based on Its Value

Title: ASP.NET Data Web Controls Kick Start
ISBN: 0672325012
Published: February 2003
Author: Scott Mitchell
Chapter: Chapter 11: Altering the Data Before It's Rendered
Published by Sams