The Sybase Web DataWindow is a DataWindow that is generated dynamically for use in Web applications. The Web DataWindow offers a thin-client solution that provides most of the data manipulation, presentation, and coding capabilities of the DataWindow without requiring any DLLs on the Web client. The DataWindow that displays in the Web browser looks very much like the DataWindow you designed in DataWindow Designer.
In DataWindow .NET, you work with the Web DataWindow using a custom server component called a WebDataWindowControl. You use a WebDataWindowControl in a Web forms page in an ASP.NET Web application in much the same way that you use a DataWindowControl in a form in a .NET Windows application. The WebDataWindowControl renders a DataWindow object and its data as a Web DataWindow and displays it in an ASP.NET (.aspx) page in a browser.
For more information about using the WebDataWindowControl, see “How to use the Web DataWindow”.
The Web DataWindow can be rendered in three formats:
XML Separate XML (content), XSLT (layout), and CSS (style) with a subsequent transformation to XHTML
You select the format you want to use by setting the WebDataWindowControl’s RenderFormat property. The XML RenderFormat provides the greatest control of the presentation of the DataWindow. For more information about the files generated when you use the XML RenderFormat, see “About XML, XSLT, CSS, and XHTML”. For what to consider when choosing a RenderFormat, see “XML, XHTML, and HTML formats”.
This chapter describes the Web DataWindow and how you use it in ASP.NET Web forms applications. For an overview of ASP.NET Web forms applications, see “About ASP.NET”.
