How do I bind an ASP.NET FormView to a single record?

Question

The whole purpose of the ASP.NET FormView control is to display a single record at a time. So how do I bind it to a single record? It complains that

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Answer 1

As the error message says, the DataSource object must implement IListSource, IEnumerable or IDataSource to work.

If you have an object av type A which do not implement one of the mentioned interfaces then you could as you say wrap your object in a list:

C#

var myDataSource = new List<A> {myObject};

VB.NET

Dim myDataSource As List(Of A)(myObject)