Databinding - ASP.NET tutorial

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This tutorial covers one of ASP.NET's most useful features: databinding. A number of controls within ASP.NET have the capability to understand the form and content of a collection and to render the correct tags to represent such user elements as list boxes, radio button lists, and combo boxes. Here we'll examine how these controls work and how to use them on a Web page.

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If you read the internet and all of the websites dedicated to Asp.Net you will inevitably read about the wonders of the DataGrid, DataList, and Repeater controls. While each of these has its place, if you are only displaying data there is a much faster and more efficient means to do so.

In this article we will discuss providing a programmable method of securing files on for your ASP.Net applications. This code could come in handy where you have an application hosted on an ISP and you do not have access to a folder outside of your Web directory structure, and you are not able to change permissions on folder in the Web. This method does not require storing your file in a binary field in your database, thus reducing cost of having to buy database storage from your ISP, and with no impact on the network traffic between the database and web servers.

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