StepByStepASP.NET » datalist http://stepbystepasp.net Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:48:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 14) Styling ASP.NET Datalist Control http://stepbystepasp.net/14-styling-aspnet-datalist-control-f/ http://stepbystepasp.net/14-styling-aspnet-datalist-control-f/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:25:32 +0000 admin http://stepbystepasp.net/?p=169 In this video i’ll be showing you how to change the layout of the datalist from within the source. You can modify the HTML to your heart content, you can change the css styles and the way the data is displayed by using a table. You can get very creative with the Datalist because it [...]]]> In this video i’ll be showing you how to change the layout of the datalist from within the source. You can modify the HTML to your heart content, you can change the css styles and the way the data is displayed by using a table. You can get very creative with the Datalist because it provides its code in a very easy form to modify using simple HTML tags.

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I modified the width of the table container that holds the datalist so it can be wide enough to display our news correctly. I showed how to change the title to bold.

The datalist was added to the master page, this means that all our page will display the same information on this section. If you want you can add another datalist to a specific page and connect it to a datasource that you want in order to display inforrmation on that page from the datasource. Data sources include LINQ, Sitemap, SQL Server database, Access database, XML file and so on. All this can be bound to a datalist and every other controls in the Data section of the Toolbox.

I modified the css style of the datalist from the properties windows, by adding a border and i changed the alternating item background color (watch video). This makes the datalist to be more pleasing to the eye.

You can modify the datalist to display the last item first, especially in our case, we want the latest news first and old news last. This property can be set on the properties windows.

Share/Bookmark]]> http://stepbystepasp.net/14-styling-aspnet-datalist-control-f/feed/ 0 13)Adding Data to the Database and ASP.NET DataList Control http://stepbystepasp.net/13-adding-data-to-the-database-and-using-aspnet-datalist-control-r/ http://stepbystepasp.net/13-adding-data-to-the-database-and-using-aspnet-datalist-control-r/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:04:39 +0000 admin http://stepbystepasp.net/?p=165 In this video i’ll show you how to populate data into the database from within the database itself. The ideal way to insert data into the database is from the website front end, for example a web form. We are not going to be creative here, we’ll add the data into the database by using the database front end itself. In the future we’ll be using a web form instead.

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