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A Tour of SharePoint Data Source Controls
Besides the classic ASP.NET data source controls, SharePoint brings along its own. These allow us to retrieve data not just from SharePoint, but also from external sources, such as web services or SQL databases. Using SharePoint Designer you end up using these data sources without even knowing, and, specially, ignoring what other options you have. Let’s look at these controls one by one and see how the can be used. I already talked about the SPDataSource and AggregateDataSource, so I won’t cover these here. I also won’t be covering them in depth, but instead will provide an example of how to use them.