Summary

This chapter was devoted to the topic of building templated databound controls. In the first part, you learned how to support templates in your custom controls. You learned how to create templates that support both one-way and two-way databinding expressions. You also learned how to create a default template for a control.

The second half of this chapter focused on the topic of building databound controls. You learned how to create a simple DivView control that displays the records from a database table in a series of HTML <div> tags. Finally, you learned how to build two databinding controls that take advantage of AJAX. We created an AjaxDivView control that automatically refreshes its contents every five seconds. We also created a AjaxFormView control that enables you to insert and update database records directly from the client without a postback to the server.