Search and Display Data Using the GridView Control — with No Code!

One of the most common requests from users is to have a page where they can search for data stored in a database. Sure, there are many commercial tools for this, but they are usually expensive and difficult to implement. Providing an alternative, Ricardo Sanchez demonstrates how to create a page for users to perform simple searches using ASP.NET 2.0’s new GridView control and a stored procedure.

In this article Ricardo D. Sanchez demonstrates how to create a Web service that will connect to a SQL database and an application that will connect to the Web service to retrieve the data.