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70-562 ListView


List View is a versatile control that allows to work with a signle control rather than many smaller controls.
Provides rich sorting, deleting, editing, it is one of the most flexible grid control.
Design view can fill the ListView with fake data to give an overview.
In designer, the configure list view link might not show, (currently a bug), to fix configure the datasource but cancel then click configure datasource again and this time click finish and the Cofnoigure ListView link will show up in the smarttag.
You can choose templates, LayoutTemplate is crucial, ItemTemplate(a row is part of a table, in a list view they are called items since they don't have to correspond to a table row), AlternatingItemTemplate, ItemSeparatorTemplate, SelectedItem, EmptyItemTemplate, EditItemTemplate, InsertItemTemplate allows to customize what the user will be presented when creating an item, EmptyDataTemplate.
The itemPlaceHolder and the groupPlaceHolder are important elements as the will be replaced by each row of data in the format provided in the corresponding templates.
The tiled layout uses the GroupTemplate, this is done with the GroupItemCount of the ListView, this says 3 tiles wide.
To insert a new item at run time, the list view need to be configured to do so, the insert is placed in the end of the grid by default but can be configured in the list view element to be at the top of the grid.
The bind explicit method allows to perform 2 way, instead of Eval that is only one way.

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