Yield to the power of the DataSource

Posted by: Marc's Musings, on 02 Aug 2006 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

The new declarative model for data sources in ASP.Net 2.0 is very seductive in its simplicity. I've all-too-often seen people doing date-picker and time-pickers by listing the times individually in ListItems. This leads to pages that have to be manually revisited if you change the range (start-time and end-time) or the increment (e.g. on-the-hour, on-the-half, etc.). It would be really cool to be able to drive these lists declaratively and bind them using the standard DataSourceID logic.Using the...

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