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The ListView control is similar to the GridView control in many ways: both display a set of records, both support built-in sorting, paging, editing, and deleting functionality with minimal effort. The ListView differs from the GridView in two key ways: Rather than using fields, the ListView is rendered via templates, which offers the page developer much finer control over the emitted markup, and The ListView supports built-in inserting support The first installment in this series explored the ListView’s template-based rendering. This installment looks at how to use the ListView’s inserting functionality. In a nutshell, inserting data from the ListView requires two steps: defining the inserting interface via the InsertItemTemplate and specifying where the inserting interface should go via the InsertItemPosition property. Much like with editing data from within the ListView , the InsertItemTemplate can contain two-way databinding statements when using a data source control to get the inputs entered by the user from the ListView’s inserting interface into the parameters of the data source control. And like with the editing and deleting workflows, you can programmatically examine and modify the user’s submitted data before inserting the data, cancelling the operation altogether if needed. This article walks through the steps for creating a ListView that allows users to insert records.

The previous installments in this article series have demonstrated how to display, group, sort, and page through data using the ListView control. In addition to displaying data, the ListView control also provides support for inserting, updating, and deleting data. If the ListView uses a data source control (such as a SqlDataSource or ObjectDataSource) and that data source control is configured to support insert, updating, or deleting, then implementing such functionality in the ListView does not require writing a single line of code. Rather, adding inserting and updating support entails creating templates that define the inserting and updating user interfaces and Button controls that trigger the actual update or insert. Implementing deleting support requires simply adding a properly configured Delete button to the ItemTemplate. This installment and the next explore how to perform inserts, updates, and deletes using the ListView control. This installment focuses on deleting and shows how to perform simple, standard deletes as well as more advanced deleting scenarios. The demos explored here (as well as the demos from previous installments) are available for download at the end of the article. Read on to learn more! ( It is assumed that the reader is familiar with how to delete data using a data source control. If this is not the case, please first read Accessing and Updating Data in ASP.NET: Deleting Data . ) Read More >