Building your own data bound controls...

Templates - Part 1

Mike Christensen: Web Dev Guy — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:53:59 GMT

ASP.NET is, to perhaps oversimplify things, a template parser at heart.&nbsp; An HTTP Handler (anything...

Data Binding to Custom Objects

Mike Christensen: Web Dev Guy — Thu, 18 May 2006 09:20:30 GMT

I’m back!
I apologize for my lack of recent blogging, but this post should help make up for that.&nbsp;...

re: Building your own data bound controls...

Ron Krauter — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:55:40 GMT

Great article.

Why are you calling controls[1].Render();

After you assign a datasource, I normally call
controls[1].DataBind();

Please explain the difference.

re: Building your own data bound controls...

mikechr — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:05:04 GMT

You're right - Render() does the data binding, plus writes out each item to the Console. I could have had a DataBind() method that binds to the data source then stores the items in some sort of internal list, then a Render() or ToString() overload that writes out that list. However, to keep the example as compact as possible I decided to just make a single Render() method that binds to the data source and dumps the results to the console. Thanks for your comment!

Mike

re: Building your own data bound controls...

Michael Palmer — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:37:34 GMT

"it’s all text based so it supports 7bit token ring networks, so you don’t have to worry about upgrading your network."

Is this a joke? What does that have to do with anything? What does network topology have to do with transferring SOAP text? Are you just trying to sound smart? If so, that actually makes you sound stupid. Sorry... had to say that.

re: Building your own data bound controls...

trifonius — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:20:54 GMT

GREAT!!!!

Highly instructive.

Thanks to guys like you I keep being happy as a programmer.

re: Building your own data bound controls...

Chris McCall — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:36:31 GMT

I haven't even started implementing this yet and I already love this post. Very entertaining and informative. Love the references to 7-bit Token Ring networks (the guy below who didn't get it is a humorless ass) and the overall conversational tone.

Your blog just got a new fan. Keep 'em coming!