A Repeater control is a light weight control which can be used for simple reporting purposes. It supports basic event-handling like InitLoadUnload etc. This also supports some basic formatting of data and can be presented to the user. A Repeater control offers limited level of data editing or selecting capabilities. For such editing and updates ASP .Net offers DataList and DataGrid controls.
we can not edit data in the repeater control in .net 1.0 Anyway The Repeater has been replaced by the ListView which offers the same flexibility but includes features such as selection sorting and editing.