Hints for working with GridView in VB 2005

.NET 2.0 introduced the GridView as a successor to the DataGrid control. As Dino Esposito writes in Move Over DataGrid, There's a New Grid in Town:

This definition merits mention thanks to a recent blog post by developer Hannes Preishuber, who provides a list of 14 common Visual Basic 2005 GridView functions. The post, which can be read here, includes the following samples:

• Formatted Boundfield
• Paging huge amount of data
• Search data
• Insert Record
• Multirow select
• Calculated row
• Dropdown in GridView edit mode
• Nested Master Detail
• Rows with buttons
• Full row select and hovering
• Show the ordering with image
• Delete Confirmation
• CSS Control Adapters
• Smarter UI callback

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admits that some of these samples may be well known to readers, while others are being replaced by new technology such as ASP.NET AJAX. Nonetheless, his post serves as a handy reference and a starting point for getting acquainted with how GridView works.

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