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POWhy Repeaters in ASP.NET?
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    copied!<p>I'm a Ruby on Rails / PHP guy, and my company got me to work with ASP.NET. It's not too bad, I'm glad to learn a new language but since I started working with this technology everyone is bothering me about Repeaters.</p> <p>The thing is that I totally fail of seeing the point: what make using a repeater better than just displaying things in a loop? Am I going to programmers' hell for this?</p> <p><strong>In rails I would do...</strong></p> <p><em>controller</em></p> <pre><code>@types= Type.find(:all) </code></pre> <p><em>view</em></p> <pre><code> &lt;%@types.each do |t| %&gt; &lt;%= t.name %&gt; &lt;%= link_to "view", t%&gt; &lt;%end%&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>In ASP.NET I'd do:</strong></p> <p><em>controller class attributes</em></p> <pre><code>protected List&lt;Type&gt; _types = null; </code></pre> <p><em>controller class PageLoad</em></p> <pre><code>_types = MethodThatGetTypeFromDB(); </code></pre> <p><em>view</em></p> <pre><code>&lt;% foreach (var tin _types){%&gt; &lt;%= t.name %&gt; &lt;%}%&gt; </code></pre> <p>There are no repeaters, but the code is clean, DRY and respects the MVC AP. I don't create methods everywhere to handle <code>ItemDataBound</code> or whatever. So what's the idea here? Am I the only one that find that repeaters are a pain to set up and are not worth it compared to the advantages they bring?</p> <p>I think I'm just not getting the idea here. </p> <p>I'm <strong>not</strong> trying to start a battle rails vs the world, it's just that this is what I know the best so this is the paradigm I'm trying to find when I'm developing. I think it's more convenient and I'm used to it, but if someone goes "Repeaters are good because A, B and C, doing what you're doing is terrible because D, E and F", then I'll admit it and change my approach.</p>
 

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