Select a declarative datasource:
Source Code & Description
The ASP.NET 2.0 platform provides an entirely new approach to data binding, which
eliminates the coding necessary for connecting a control to its underlying data
source. telerik r.a.d.treeview employs this new way for accessing data, so that
its data binding can be accomplished in a completely declarative manner using the
new data source controls.
Declarative data source controls expose data from a back-end store (SQL database,
middle-tier business object, XML file, XML Web Service) to data-bound UI control
on a page. Data Source controls also provide new capabilities such as sorting, paging,
caching, updating, inserting, and deleting data, which UI controls can automatically
use of without any additional code.
Data Source Controls
Data source controls are not rendered, but instead represent a particular back-end
data store. ASP.NET 2.0 includes the following server controls out-of-the-box: SqlDataSource,
ObjectDataSource, AccessDataSource, SiteMapSource, XmlDataSource.
Currently r.a.d.tabstrip supports the following data source controls:
SiteMapSource - enables binding to the hierarchy exposed by an ASP.NET 2.0
site navigation provider.
The SiteMapDataSource control is associated to a data-bound control through the
control's DataSourceID property.
XmlDataSource - Enables binding to an XML file or document.
XmlDataSource supports a DataFile property for specifying the path to an
XML data file to be used as input. You may also specify a TranformFile property
to apply an XSLT transformation to the data and an XPath property for specifying
a subset of nodes to expose from the data source.
