An Overview of Inserting, Updating, and Deleting Data:
Step 2-Adding and Configuring the ObjectDataSource Control
In this step of the VIDEO TUTORIAL an ObjectDataSource is configured to use an underlying business object’s various methods that include SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELET methods. The business object under consideration is ProductsBLL and the corresponding methods are GetProducts( ), AddProducts( ), UpdateProducts( ) and DeleteProducts( ) respectively that map to the corresponding SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE tabs of ObjectDataSource configuration wizard. This ObjectDataSource control is added to the Basics.aspx web page of the EditInsertDelete folder to explore the differences between the data modification capabilities of the GridView, FormView and DetailsView control. The preceding data source will be used by all of the data web controls for upcoming steps of this video tutorial.For detailed information and source code for this step, please refer to the original article.