Skip to main content

Difference Between Repeater and DataList and GridView

Difference Between Repeater and DataList and GridView

 
 Keywords : gridview vs datalist, gridview vs repeater, repeater vs datalist, difference between gridview and datalist and repeater
Repeater and DataList and GridView are Data-bound controls that bound to a data source control like SqlDataSource, LinqDataSource to display and modify data in your Asp.Net web application. Data-bound controls are composite controls that contains others Asp.Net controls like as Label, TextBox, DropdownList etc. into a single layout. In this article, I am going to expose the difference among these three.

Difference between DataList and Repeater

DataList
Repeater
Rendered as Table.
Template driven.
Automatically generates columns from the data source.
This features is not supported.
Selection of row is supported.
Selection of row is not supported.
Editing of contents is supported.
Editing of contents is not supported.
You can arrange data items horizontally or vertically in DataList by using property RepeatDirection.
This features is not supported.
Performance is slow as compared to Repeater
This is very light weight and fast data control among all the data control.

Difference between GridView and Repeater

GridView
Repeater
It was introduced with Asp.Net 2.0.
It was introduced with Asp.Net 1.0.
Rendered as Table.
Template driven.
Automatically generates columns from the data source.
This features is not supported.
Selection of row is supported.
Selection of row is not supported.
Editing of contents is supported.
Editing of contents is not supported.
Built-in Paging and Sorting is provided.
You need to write custom code.
Supports auto format or style features.
This has no this features.
Performance is very slow as compared to Repeater.
This is very light weight and fast data control among all the data control.

Difference between GridView and DataList

GridView
DataList
It was introduced with Asp.Net 2.0.
It was introduced with Asp.Net 1.0.
Built-in Paging and Sorting is provided.
You need to write custom code.
Built-in supports for Update and Delete operations.
Need to write code for implementing Update and Delete operations.
Supports auto format or style features.
This features is not supported.
RepeatDirection property is not supported.
You can arrange data items horizontally or vertically in DataList by using property RepeatDirection.
Doesn’t support customizable row separator.
Supports customizable row separator by using SeparatorTemplate.
Performance is slow as compared to DataList.
Performance is fast is compared to GridView.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Top 10 ASP.NET Web API Interview Questions

What is ASP.NET Web API? ASP.NET Web API is a framework that simplifies building HTTP services for broader range of clients (including browsers as well as mobile devices) on top of .NET Framework. Using ASP.NET Web API, we can create non-SOAP based services like plain XML or JSON strings, etc. with many other advantages including: Create resource-oriented services using the full features of HTTP Exposing services to a variety of clients easily like browsers or mobile devices, etc. What are the Advantages of Using ASP.NET Web API? Using ASP.NET Web API has a number of advantages, but core of the advantages are: It works the HTTP way using standard HTTP verbs like  GET ,  POST ,  PUT ,  DELETE , etc. for all CRUD operations Complete support for routing Response generated in JSON or XML format using  MediaTypeFormatter It has the ability to be hosted in IIS as well as self-host outside of IIS Supports Model binding and Validation Support for OD...
2 comments
Read more

Extension methods in C#

Consider the class C# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13          namespace ExtensionMethod      {          public class testClass {              public string sayHello ( ) {              return "Hello" ;            }        }      }     Invoke the above from your form using C# 1 2 3 4 5 6          testClass test = new testClass ( ) ;      MessageBox . Show ( test . sayHello ( ) ) ;     This will show “Hello” in message box. Consider the scenario where you don...
5 comments
Read more

What is cookie? Advantages and disadvantages of cookies?

What is cookie? A cookie is a small piece of text file stored on user's computer in the form of name-value pair. Cookies are used by websites to keep track of visitors e.g. to keep user information like username etc. If any web application using cookies, Server send cookies and client browser will store it. The browser then returns the cookie to the server at the next time the page is requested. The most common example of using a cookie is to store User information, User preferences, Password Remember Option etc.It is also one of the common and mostly asked interview questions. Some facts about Cookie Here are a few facts to know about cookies: · Cookies are domain specific i.e. a domain cannot read or write to a cookie created by another domain. This is done by the browser for security purpose. · Cookies are browser specific. Each browser stores the cookies in a different location. The cookies are browser specific and so a cookie created in one browser(e.g in Google Chrome...
2 comments
Read more