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Data Source Configuration Wizard (Visual Web Developer)

The Data Source Configuration wizard helps you to configure a data source when you want to display data in an ASP.NET Web server control that supports data binding. For more information about data binding, see ASP.NET Data Access Overview.

Web server controls that support data binding include, but are not limited to, the following:

BulletedList

DetailsView

GridView

RadioButtonList

CheckBoxList

DropDownList

ListBox

Repeater

DataList

FormView

Menu

TreeView

To open the Data Source Configuration wizard from an ASP.NET Web server control

  1. In Visual Web Developer, create or open an existing .aspx page and then switch to Design view.

  2. From the Toolbox, drag one of the controls from the previous list onto the page. For example, from the Standard group of the Toolbox, drag a GridView control onto the page.

  3. Right-click the control and then click Show Smart Tag.

  4. In the tasks window, from the Choose Data Source drop-down list, select New data source. (If there is no drop-down list available in the tasks window, click Choose Data Source.)

    Note

    Some controls only allow you to click Choose Data Source, after which you select New data source from the Select a data source drop-down list.

Tasks

UI Elements

  • Where will the application get data from?
    Specify the type of data that you want to retrieve. The following data types are available:

  • Specify an ID for the data source
    Specify an identifier for the data source control. This identifier will become the value of the id attribute for the data source control that is created by the wizard.

See Also

Concepts

ASP.NET Data Access Overview

Reference

Configure Data Source Dialog Box - AccessDataSource

Configure Data Source Dialog Box - ObjectDataSource

Configure Data Source Dialog Box - SqlDataSource

Configure Data Source Dialog Box - XmlDataSource

Add Field Dialog Box

Fields Dialog Box