The GridView is a new and powerful control in ASP.NET 2.0. It is designed to replace the very familiar DataGrid control you probably used in many of your ASP.NET 1.x applications. Together with the new ObjectDataSource I will show you how to implement efficient sorting and paging using custom data objects while taking advantage of the new SQL Server 2005 row_count function.
Author:Benton Stark
Editor:David Schultz
Reviewers:Saurabh Nandu, Damien Foggon
Ewan Buckingham: Ewan is Apress' Assistant Editorial Director for Microsoft Windows based books. His current interests include the evolution of the C# 3.0 language specification and the implementation of ASP.NET AJAX in an accessible manner.
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