Ok, onto some Good Stuff--V2 Datagrids!

Since I was already "scolded" for my last post not being .NET-related :)

Here are my notes from Scott Guthrie's keynote last week.  I know some people have already blogged some of this, but I thought I'd go ahead and share what I wrote down:

1) First thing I notice is that the new Visual Studio Scott is using has script tags in the code.  As an inline coder myself, this makes me go "hmmmm..."

2) No "code" is required to Databind, to do sorting, paging, or even editing (with real updates!)  This is phenomenal news--now I see how they're going to meet their code reduction goals.

3) Some neat-looking <asp:xxxdatasource> tags, <asp:sqldatasource> was one, I think there were others.  Somehow the Datagrid gets bound to these things, and that's how there's no code.  They have parameters, too.

4) Scott even did a demo where you could filter the results of the data grid to the value of a DropDownList, ALSO WITH NO CODE.  Very interesting.  I think it has something to do with those datasource controls I mentioned above.

So, all this stuff doesn't suck.  Can't wait to see more!

Datagrid Girl

 

Published Monday, May 12, 2003 5:16 PM by datagridgirl

Comments

# re: Ok, onto some Good Stuff--V2 Datagrids!

Marcie that look awesome !

I ,ove the second point, but I don't understand the first one ?!?

did you see something like Edit and Run ?

And for the previous blog, don't worry, I love Icecreams ;-)

Monday, May 12, 2003 6:57 PM by Paschal

# Jim Meeker

Jim Meeker

Monday, May 12, 2003 8:16 PM by TrackBack

# re: Ok, onto some Good Stuff--V2 Datagrids!

I couldn't hold myself back when I read this post...

Theres two new sets of controls - DataBound controls like the new Grid and DataSource controls like the Sql one. With data sources being controls, theres finally room to do something intelligent - automatic binding, editing etc. And then there are parameter objects to pull values into data sources from other controls, the query string etc. at the right time. DataBound controls can talk to any DataSource control. Well, almost... but in any case no code required... just declarative markup!

Hope to share more soon ;-)

Tuesday, May 13, 2003 1:27 AM by Nikhil Kothari

# re: Ok, onto some Good Stuff--V2 Datagrids!

To tell the truth, I very rarely use datagrids - basically only when I need a templated column. I tend to almost exclusively use Repeaters with OnItemDataBound modification where necessary. I find that the Paging functionality for DataGrids at present is clunky - I tend to use Repeaters with T-SQL stored procedures - it's much faster and a lot more scalable. Can't wait until the V2 stuff comes around, expecially looking forward the the SQL responsive ASP.NET caching stuff which is planned.

Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:37 PM by Scott Galloway

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