It also discusses how one can
export a GridView control to MS Excel and MS Word.
Chapter 7 explores the other view controls in ASP.NET, like DetailsView, FormView,
and the TreeView control, and how we can use them to perform
various operations.
Chapter 8 discusses LINQ, its features and benefits, and how it can be used to bind
data to the new data controls in Orcas.
What You Need for This Book
This book is for ASP.NET developers who want to display or manage data in ASP.
NET applications. To use this book, you need to have access to ASP.NET and
SQL Server.
The following is the list of software required for this book:
ASP.NET 2.0 (For Chapters 1 - 7)
ASP.NET 3.5 (Orcas) (For Chapter 8)
SQL Server 2005
Who is This Book for
This book is for ASP.NET developers who want to display or manage data in ASP.
NET applications. The code examples are in C#.
Conventions
In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between
different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an
explanation of their meaning.
There are two styles for code. Code words in text are shown as follows: "You can
also use the static method Eval() of the DataBinder class for binding data to
your controls."
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