ASP.NET Dynamic Data Content Map

Getting started

• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Overview

  Provides an overview of ASP.NET Dynamic Data.

• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Infrastructure

  Provides information about files and directory structure, about configuration settings, and about registering a data model for Dynamic Data

Familiarizing yourself with ASP.NET Dynamic Data classes

• System.Web.DynamicData namespace

• System.Web.DynamicData.ModelProviders namespace

• System.Web.DynamicData.Design namespace

Using Dynamic Data in existing Web applications

• Walkthrough: Enabling Dynamic Data in ASP.NET Data-Bound Controls

  Shows how to enable dynamic behavior in ASP.NET data-bound controls without using Dynamic Data scaffolding.

  A Visual Studio project with source code is available to accompany this topic: Enabling Dynamic Data.

• Walkthrough: Adding Dynamic Data to Existing ASP.NET Web Sites

  Shows how to modify an existing ASP.NET Web site to include Dynamic Data features.

  A Visual Studio project with source code is available to accompany this topic: Adding Dynamic Data

Building a data-driven Web site automatically

• Walkthrough: Creating a New Dynamic Data Web Site Using Scaffolding

  Shows how to create a data-driven Web site that uses ASP.NET Dynamic Data features and that requires little or no coding.

  See a video that shows this feature: Watch Creating Dynamic Data Web Site.

• How to: Add Dynamic Behavior to GridView and DetailsView Controls

  Shows how to add dynamic behavior to data-bound controls in a Dynamic Data Web site.

  How to: Add Dynamic Behavior to ListView and FormView Controls

  Shows how to add dynamic behavior to templated data-bound controls in a Dynamic Data Web site.

Customizing the appearance and behavior of data fields in the presentation layer

• How to: Customize ASP.NET Dynamic Data Default Field Templates

  Shows how to customize the default field templates.

  See a video that shows this feature: Watch Customize Default Field Templates.

• How to: Create Table Action Links in Dynamic Data

  Describes how to create dynamic hyperlinks that use the table actions (such as edit and delete) that are enabled by Dynamic Data.

• How to: Customize Data Field Appearance and Behavior in a Data-Bound Control

  Shows how to specify which field template to use to display data field values.

Customizing the appearance and behavior of data fields and tables in the presentation layer

• Walkthrough: Customizing Table Layout Using Entity Templates.

  Shows how to customize the display of a table by using entity templates.

  A Visual Studio project with source code is available to accompany this topic: Dynamic Data Templates.

• How to: Customize the Layout of an Individual Table By Using a Custom Page Template

  Shows how to customize the display of a table by using a custom page template.

• How to: Customize Data Field Display in the Data Model

  Shows how to customize the display of a data field by using a custom field template.

• How to: Customize Data Field Appearance and Behavior For Non-Intrinsic Data Types in the Data Model

  Shows how to customize the appearance and behavior of data field types that are not defined in the database schema.

• Walkthrough: Customizing Data Field Appearance and Behavior in the Data Model

  Shows how to customize the appearance and behavior of a data field in the data model.

  A Visual Studio project with source code is available to accompany this topic: Scaffolding Dynamic Data.

  See a video that shows this feature: Watch Customize Data Field Validation Using Custom Attributes.

Customizing data field validation in the data layer

• How to: Customize Data Field Validation in the Data Model

  Shows how to customize and extend data validation in the data model.

  Run an online example of this feature: Run Customize Data Field Validation.

• How to: Customize Data Field Validation in the Data Model Using Custom Attributes

  Shows how to customize and extend data field validation in the data model.

  Run an online example of this feature: Run Customize Data Field Validation Using Custom Attributes.

Adding filtering capability to pages

• Walkthrough: Filtering Rows in Tables That Have a Parent-Child Relationship

  Shows how to perform table-row filtering in an ASP.NET Dynamic Data Web site.

• DynamicFilter

  Shows how to perform table row filtering using foreign keys in the same table where filtering is performed.

• QueryableFilterRepeater

  Shows how to perform table-row filtering using Boolean, foreign-key, and enumeration column types.

  A Visual Studio project with source code is available to accompany the previous topics: Scaffolding Dynamic Data.

Working with data relationships in Dynamic Data pages

• Walkthrough: Mapping Table-per-Hierarchy Inheritance in Dynamic Data.

  Shows how to implement table-per-hierarchy (TPH) inheritance by modifying the conceptual model in an Entity Data Model (EDM).

• Working with Many-to-Many Data Relationships in Dynamic Data

  Explains how the ADO.NET Entity Framework can create many-to-many relationships.

  A Visual Studio project with source code is available to accompany the previous topics: Dynamic Data Entity Framework.