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Repeater

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The Repeater control is the most lightweight Data Presentation control available in the ASP.NET framework and has been around since version 1.0.

This control is used to display a repeated lists of items that are bound to the control.

External Links:

- ASP.NET The Repeater Control (w3schools)
- Using ASP.NET Repeater Control (Sitepoint)

Revision number 2, Tuesday, August 18, 2009 4:13:45 PM by hajan

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Repeater is one of the controls that I use the most! It gives me a lot of flexibility to do things on my own way without a lot of limitation.

The most important feature of Repeater control is: it is lightweight, i.e. it does not generate extra markup unlike Gridview and DataGrid controls. So Repeater is the most useful, performance friendly asp.net data control.

Best article...

good one

Is Repeater has same functionality like GridView?

Nice article

If you are trying to bind data to a textbox wrapped within a repeater, the repeaters visibility cannot be set as hidden otherwise the data will not be binded and an error will occur.

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