ASP.NET Guestbook - Explanation of the Tags (Page 8 of 8 )
<ItemTemplate>
This tag wraps the HTML controls for each row in the data source.
<Header/Footer Template>
These templates are used to render controls and text at the beginning and end of the list. We have coded <table> in the Header template and </table> in the footer template so that all the rows get contained within a single table.
<AlternatingTemplate>
Same as ItemTemplate but used to distinguish every alternating row by means of different color, fonts, etc., In our app we used different color.
<SeparatorTemplate>
Control to render between each DataRow.In our case it’s an <HR>tag
There many other templates for you to consider as you get more comfortable with them.
If everything goes right you might see the guestbook like this:
Things to consider in future editions
You may wish to validate the email ID of Viewcomments.aspx as well as implement a paging mechanism with the datalist.
Resource Links:
Connecting to DataBase
Info about Datalist
Datalist Paging
MSDN library
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