The Repeater control is probably the most over used control in the company that i currently work for. Almost every grid and listing has been built using this and i has made me nuts when i first started using it since i consider myself a Datagrid or a DataList guy.
One of the things I hate about it is that usually, people try to format everything in a way that the Visual Studio.NET IDE barks, squels and cry. Adding those pesky all over the code which makes the page resemble an old ASP page that any developer who has thrown those coding style into the trash bin have nightmares and gloom scapes all over their nightly pundit rest.
And since I am a good employee who follows strict coding guidelines and comply with it with utmost care.... i decided to embrace it rather than to do a holy war against this control.
But i need to do something to make my life easier.
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