I have read some articles about this matter… and it seems that the Repeater is the one with best performance as explained in this other question.
I know that the GridView is the heaviest of them all, and that it weights a lot in the ViewState. So the DataList has been the "best" option for some situations.
But how about Datalist performance vs ListView?
Also, the GridView has a Pager already built in… and it seems that the ListView has one to.
But if it create a pager for the DataList… will it become heavier than the GridView?
And how about DataList + Paging vs ListView with Paging?
Best Answer
performance reperter > datalist > gridview
simple control High-performance