What are the advantages and disadvantages of using datalist ?

madhureddy318
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Aug 22nd, 2006
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spandanapotla

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Adv: the DataList's display is defined via templates,DataList allows for much more customization of the rendered HTML markup , by which it is more user-friendly displays of data.

DisAdv:
adding such functionality with the DataList takes more development time than with the DataGrid, as

The Edit/Update/Cancel buttons that can be created in a DataGrid via the EditCommandColumn column type, must be manually added to the DataList, and
The DataGrid BoundColumn column types automatically use a TextBox Web control for the editing interface, whereas with the DataList you must explicitly specify the editing interface for the item being edited via the EditItemTemplate.

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Rajsekhar

Aug 25th, 2006

Hi,
     Datalist control is just like the repeater control used to bound the repeated list of items to the control.
Disadvantages
      we can't do the paging and sorting with datalist controls.

gouri

Aug 29th, 2006

Hi,
Datalist is updateable and datareader is not updateable

spandanapotla
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Apr 4th, 2008

Adv: the DataList's display is defined via templates,DataList allows for much more customization of the rendered HTML markup , by which it is more user-friendly displays of data.

DisAdv:
adding such functionality with the DataList takes more development time than with the DataGrid, as
The Edit/Update/Cancel buttons that can be created in a DataGrid via the EditCommandColumn column type, must be manually added to the DataList, and
The DataGrid BoundColumn column types automatically use a TextBox Web control for the editing interface, whereas with the DataList you must explicitly specify the editing interface for the item being edited via the EditItemTemplate.