Hi,

I have the following concept in my mind: I want to create base functionality for UserControls so that I can extend the base clase and quickly create user controls which display data of a single TypedViewRow (DetailViews are really boring in terms of design possibilities). So the UserControl should be a generic class configured by a given TypedView. It will take care about data binding, etc.

At the end I just have to extend the base class and provide it the values for requested parameters (e.g. Person.Id = 123) and an .aspx front end that will be able to align place holders in an arbitrary fashion (design-wise, not a "boring" GridViewRow/Detailsview). The base class, will fetch the data so that the values of the given properties can be assigned when the UserControl is generated/rendered.

I hope, I confused everybody enough and somebody can tell me how to start implementing this. I looked into the help, but I can't find anything that would target the topic better than "Generated code - Databinding with ASP.NET 2.0, Adapter". Is there anything that would be of better help?

Thanks.

Isn't there something available in visual studio? Like with the datasources window? (which allows you to define which controls to generate based on a class) ?