Hi here it comes the limitaions of gridview and repeater .
Coming to gridview here it follows:-
ASP.NET’s GridView is great, but admittedly there are limitations to what it can do.
Some nice features which are missing include
- Advanced Search
- Print
- Save
I’ve written an advanced gridview class which is able to perform all these

This gridview comes with the ability to
- Display Create button which goes to another url when clicked
- Save button to save all the records in the Gridview (yes all the records)
- Print button to print all the records in the GridView (same as save button, but will pop up a new window to do the print)
- Advanced Search which gives you “google like”
search e.g using “+” , “-”, quotation marks to mark words as one key
term, OR. e.g aaa bbb “”ccc ddd”" +eee -fff OR ggg
coming to repeater:-
1) paging and sorting we have to do it manually.
2)Repeater is faster in performance when compare to gridview.
3)Every thing has to be did manually in repeater.
so when we come to conclude ,in repeater we have to do lot of manual coding for paging and sorting.
but the advantage is repeater is faster in performance compare to grid.
Hope it helps you.