ASP.NET Data Controls

In this chapter, you'll learn:
The ASP.NET controls that you can use to display data and let users update it.

  1. ListView Control - Overview

    This article illustrates how to let users edit, sort, and page data, without requiring you to write code.

  2. ListView Control - Paging and Sorting Data

    In this walkthrough, you work with the ListView control, which enables you to display data from a data source in a format that you define by using templates.

  3. ListView Control - Modifying Data

    This walkthrough shows you how to display and update data by using the ListView control.

  4. ListView Control - Using CSS to style data

    This blog entry shows how to use a clean, CSS-based approach to styling data in a ListView control.

  5. GridView Control - Overview

    This article illustrates how to use the GridView control to let users view, edit, and delete data from many different kinds of data sources.

  6. GridView Control - Modifying Data

    This article shows how to let users modify data using the GridView control.

  7. SqlDataSource control - Using Stored Procedures

    This walkthrough shows you how to display data in the GridView control by using a stored procedure.

  8. Chart Control - Overview

    This article describes how to use the ASP.NET Chart control, which lets you charts and graphs for complex statistical or financial analysis.

  9. Chart Control - Basic Tutorial

    This tutorial demonstrates how to add the Chart control to a page, and how to add data, titles, legends, and annotations to a chart.

  10. Chart Control - Binding to a Database

    This tutorial shows how to bind database data to a chart, and how to use tooltips and adjust the axis labels in a chart.

  11. Chart Control - Customizing with Events

    This tutorial shows how to use events to customize a chart, such as adding a custom marker at the maximum data point.

ASP.NET Web Forms Books

Microsoft's Jon Galloway recommends these books for learning ASP.NET Web Forms:

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB

Beginning ASP.NET 4: in C# and VB

by Imar Spaanjaars

Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

Professional ASP.NET 4 in C# and VB

by Bill Evjen, Scott Hanselman, Devin Rader

Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010

Pro ASP.NET 4 in C# 2010

by Matthew MacDonald