usage of datalist and repeater control with example

gridview is a web control. datalist and repeater are additional web controls.
these three web controls have some similarities are as follows

1.datalist and repeater are used to display data like gridview.
for ex: gridview have datasource property and databind() mathods. the datalist and repeaters also have these two properties.

2. datalist and repeater are composed of no.of dataitems of datalistitems and the repeater of repeateritems


further reference and for examples plz check the below link...

http://chikkanti.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/datalist-control-example-in-asp-net/