Overview:
When working with ASP.NET Webforms the ability to quickly generate working forms that are bound to your datasource can be a huge advantage.
Earlier I was creating a Webform in Visual Studio 2010, and as part of the process I dragged a SQLDataSource object onto my page, hooked it up to a stored procedure I had written, and then dragged a FormView control onto the page and associated the FormView with my SQLDataSource.
The great thing is that I was able to simply click an option on my Form Designer control that populated the entire form for me. In Visual Studio it’s just that simple!
I then just had to add my own styling for the page and convert some of my fields to editable textboxes and dropdown lists. In general this is incredibly fast and simple and allows you to add content to the Web quickly.
I will go step by step through setting up a simple ASP.NET WebForms site and populating a form from a datasource (in this case a MS SQL Server Stored Procedure) without writing a single line of code.
Justin Cooney 