Displaying Data with the FormView Control

You can display a database record with the FormView control by using an ItemTemplate. For example, the page in Listing 12.19 displays a record from the Movies database table (see Figure 12.13).

Figure 12.13. Displaying a database record with the FormView control.

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Listing 12.19. ShowFormView.aspx

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The FormView control’s DataSourceID property points to the SqlDataSource control. The SqlDataSource control ...

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