R – Why not we use Repeater Control instead of Gridview Control

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I know GridView control comes with lot of built in functionality, which we can achieve from repeater control. GridView control has performance issues. Why don't we use repeater?

You will be thinking why this question, if you can achieve the functionality and performance using repeater use it, but I want to understand why and when we should use repeater and GridView. Can anybody explain me how and when?

Best Answer

GridView supports a tablular style of layout. So works nicely for displaying data that would fit into a table. e.g. report style data

Repeater control is good for a more free style layout. Say for displaying products on an ecommerce website or for displaying entries on a forum or blog.

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man, you better use repeater or much better use listvew in Net 3.5, why ? -because it is super easy to databind to any datasource, using Eval for controls inside of it. - you get many templates for your like , i use it a lot when the database return no result, you can put a message here to inform the user instead of showing blank screen. - you can control the rendering, whither you want Tables, Div, UL, you just name it.

i highly recommend to invest in the new listview for repeating stuff.

hope this helps

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