formview - gridview - detailsview control, which to use

[blackrabbit]

I haven't used these controls much and I not sure which one to use in my web app. I have a page that grabs a single row from a database that contains a lot of data. I want to display this one row of data in a nice looking format that I set up but I'm confused about the difference between thse three controls and which one I should use. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[jmeckley]

you will have much more control and the ability to change the UI when necessary if you don't use any of these controls. I would stick with just the basics (textbox, dropdown, label, listview and repeater). for everything else use html, js (jquery) and css.

if you don't understand these concepts, take the time to learn them. otherwise you are just randomly filling out VS IDE Wizards and hoping it works. You won't have the knowledge or skills to debug the code when a problem arises.

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[jbenson001]

If you are just displaying data, then non of the controls you listed really make sense. In your case, I agree with Jason to just create the UI yourself.

 

[blackrabbit]

Thanks. I haven't been doing much web programming in the last few years and when I started getting back into it I felt a little overwhelmed.

 

[jmeckley]

this post better explains what I'm have been trying to type for the last 10 minutes

http://davybrion.com/blog/2011/01/learn-to-work-with-the-web-instead-of-against-it/

Jason Meckley
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