New Data Source Controls in ASP.NET

ASP.NET 2.0 and beyond comes in with a bundle of new data source controls which you can use to implement CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations in your applications with the least amount of code. You can use these controls to declaratively bind data in your applications. You use the ObjectDataSource control to bind data to the data controls from generic business objects. The AccessDataSource, SQLDataSource, and XMLDataSource controls are used to bind data to the ASP.NET data controls from Access, SQL Server Database, or XML data sources, respectively. This article takes a quick look at the new data source controls introduced as part of ASP.NET. It also discusses how you can work with the controls to leverage their awesome power in your applications.