I needed to display some parent data with it’s child data on the same row like shown in the image above. I happen to be combining a few tables together into a new table (called dtPlan) and then binding the GridView to that new table. So this was my approach while moving the data into […]
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A lot of times you have something like a description column and you want to display it in a GridView. But since for some of the rows the description column can be very long, it doesn’t always work very well. One solution is where you set the TD’s attribute NOWRAP, then the column runs off
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I have a page where the user can select which users are active (using CheckBoxes), and also select one (only one) to be the administrator. I put together this sample to show how I did it. The sample uses technologies instead of user. The picture below gives you an idea. I didn’t want to
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The question came up asking how to change something in a GridView row based on something else in that row without doing a postback. So I created a simple example where if you check a CheckBox then another column in that row would have it's background color changed. I did this in a generic way
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One of our applications has a page for our users to report bugs. We wanted to allow them to “attach” one or more files to the bug record. The files could be screen shots, spreadsheets, etc. So the bug entry page would have the normal data entry part and have the following box at the
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I see code like the following a lot: protected void GridView1_RowCreated(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e) { if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.Header) if (String.Empty != this.GridView1.SortExpression) AddSortImage(e.Row); } The problem with this is that it fires for each row in the GridView slowing performance. A better way is the following which only fires once
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Given a GridView like the one below, I want to add the ability to check the check box in the header and have that event check all of the checkboxes in each row. I did this by adding 12 lines of JavaScript code and adding 1 attribute to my header template. Below is
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