Manuel Abadia's ASP.NET stuff - January, 2006

It’s time to talk about the abstract class DataSourceView.

The DataSourceView class exposes the capabilities of the data source control (if it can update, insert, delete, page, sort…) and has the methods to do CRUD operations (select, insert, update and delete). It’s the element with most functionality in the new data binding infrastructure by far.

In a previous article I explained the infrastructure for a data bound control (how it gets data from a DataSourceView and when the framework calls the DataBind method). Now it’s time to explain a bit the DataSourceControl class.

The new data source controls and the new data binding infrastructure is a cool feature that can simplify development time (especially for simple scenarios and for people without much knowledge of the framework).However, for hardcore developers, not knowing what exactly the new data binding infrastructure does under the hood is problematic and unfortunately, it isn't very well documented anywhere...I'll try to explain some of the "magic" involved in this.

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