When Visual Studio 2005 is released to the market, one thing that came into our attention was that Visual Studio 2005 introduced a new concept on declarative data source binding to make it easy to use in an ASP.NET application. This new concept is very remarkable considering it can perform automatic data-binding to .NET data-bound controls “without codes” or very few codes in the Presentation Layer. This means we can now have a distinct separation between Presentation Layer, Business Logic Layer and Data Layer.
Responding to this new concept, Intersoft Solutions as one of the leading software component vendor has started to adapt this new concept to its entire latest data-bound components such as WebGrid.NET Enterprise® and WebCombo.NET®.
During initial research, we found out that it was quite hard and almost impossible to perform hierarchical data retrieval using native .NET data source control. Considering this limitation and some other aspects that can be enhanced, we decided to develop a new data source control which later called ISDataSource.NET. Based on ASP.NET data source control architecture, ISDataSource.NET provides all basic features available in native .NET data source control and advanced features unique to ISDataSource.NET.
The main purpose of ISDataSource.NET is to support Hierarchical Data binding for Intersoft data-bound components. However, it is also built with many other fascinating features to provide complete solution for rapid Web application development. For complete list of ISDataSource.NET's feature, please visit ISDataSource's feature section.