Chapter 10. Data BindingIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Web applications are, for the most part, just data-driven applications. For this reason, the ability to bind HTML elements such as drop-down lists or tables to structured data is a key feature for any Web development platform. Data binding is the process that retrieves data from a given source and associates it with properties on UI elements. In ASP.NET, a valid target for a data binding operation is a server control, also known as a data-bound control. Data-bound server controls are not another family of controls; they’re simply server controls that feature a few well-known data-related properties and feed them using ...