Web development has come a long way since simple script-based Web programming technologies like Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP). With Microsoft ASP.NET, a lot of the tedious, repetitious coding chores that were commonplace with classic ASP are now a thing of the past. For example, as all one-time classic ASP developers know, displaying data in a classic ASP Web page required the following pseudocode:
Deciding When to Use the DataGrid, DataList or Repeater Part 2
Analyzing the DataList
Recall that the DataGrid renders as an HTML <table> , which each DataSource record as a table row (<tr>) and each record field as a table column (<td>). At times you might want more control over the presentation of data. For example, you might want to have the data displayed in an HTML <table>, but rather than have one record per row, you might want to display five records per row. Alternatively, you might not want to have the data displayed in a <table> tag at all, but rather have each element displayed in a <span> tag.