Although ASP.NET provides a great object model for handling Web Controls and HTML Controls, I often see code that creates HTML markup directly, by manipulating strings. An example: private string GetSomeHtml() { string html = "<A HREF=\" http:/...

The ASP.NET Repeater control provides a template-based mechanism for rendering data using Data Binding. A basic usage sample can be found here . The control uses the <ItemTemplate> tag for declaring HTML that should be rendered for each data item...

Check Creating a Custom Placeholder to render and edit XML data using XSL templates (CMS) and Rendering n-column tables using the Repeater control (ASP.NET)

XMLPlaceholder Controls are a useful technique to handle structured data within a CMS Posting. Suppose you have a Book template containing an Authors placeholder. When a book has more than one author, you could store a comma-separated list of authors...