Differences between Datagrid, Datalist and Repeater?

Differences between Datagrid, Datalist and Repeater

Datagrid has paging while Datalist and Repeater don’t. Datalist and Repeater have a property called repeat. Direction = vertical/horizontal. (This is of great help in designing layouts). This is not there in Datagrid. A repeater is used when more intimate control over html generation is required. A repeater has the best performance as its lighter. DataLists and DataGrids have inbuilt methods which makes them heavier in load, but also very effective if you need to display data in a number of ways (i.e. sorting, indexing, records per page etc.) whereas with a Repeater you'd have to implement these yourself. If you simply want to output some data on a page I'd recommend a Repeater. If however you'll be manipulating this data in any way, such as sorting etc. Then use a DataList or DataGrid. The choice should depend upon the data you have and what you want to do with it. Also as mentioned above it's much easier to implement custom html into a Repeater. You can still however do this with a DataGrid or DataList. it's just a little trickier.