Do People Us Bound Web Controls?

[Jonathan Wood]

I was just curious if most people were using data-bound Web controls to
display data rather than just display the info via code.

I recall that old Visual Basic used to have bound controls but they weren't
very good and no self-respecting programming made much use of this. I hear
..NET data-bound controls are much better. But are they good enough for
"real" database Web programming?

Thanks for your input.

 

[Scott M.]

Absolutely! Why not use them?

I think you may be referring to the old Design Time Controls (DTC's) that
were available in Visual InterDev. These were JScript based and, yes, they
were a bit buggy.

The ASP.NET Web Controls render to the client as HTML or HTML & JavaScript
and are much (MUCH) more reliable than the old DTC's.

 

[Miha Markic [MVP C#]]

Yes