The GridView control is the successor to the DataGrid control. Like the DataGrid control, the GridView control was designed to display data in an HTML table. When bound to a data source, the DataGrid and GridView controls each display a row from a DataSource as a row in an output table.

Both the DataGrid and GridView controls are derived from the WebControl class. Although it has a similar object model to that of the DataGrid control, the GridView control also has a number of new features and advantages over the DataGrid control, which include:

* Richer design-time capabilities.
* Improved data source binding capabilities.
* Automatic handling of sorting, paging, updates, and deletes.
* Additional column types and design-time column operations.
* A Customized pager user interface (UI) with the PagerTemplate property.

The below video describes how to control a paging and appearence in gridview control,

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