Hello Dave,
As for the ASP.NET FormView control, it is the same as normal databound
control, you can supply a custom class instance as Datasource through its
"DataSource" property and call DataBind method to perform the databinding.
The difference here is that when you manually supply the custom data object
and perform databinding, you also need to manually bandle all the
edit/update/delete events(hooking the ItemUpdating ..... events) and put
your own code logic there.
One way to still facilitate the ASP.NET 2.0 databound control/data source
control model is to define a custom class which wrapper your custom data
class that will be manipulated through FormView. Then, you can configure
the ObjectDatasource to use your that wrapper class. How do you think?
Sincerely,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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