Bidirectional Sorting on Any Column in DataGrid: ASP Alliance

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Bidirectional Sorting on Any Column in DataGrid

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by Pani Baruri & Abhijit Mandrekar
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Part 1: Using SortExpression Properly

Design Time:

Drag and drop a DatGrid on the form.
Set AllowSorting property of the grid to True.
Set AutogenerateColumns property of the grid to False.
Add bound columns to datagrid and set their properties as follows. The sortexpression property refers to the name of column in database table.

Note: Employees table from Northwind database is being used to illustrate the purpose.

DataTextField	Header Text	Sort Expression
EmployeeID	Employee ID	EmployeeID ASC
LastName	Last Name	LastName ASC
FirstName	First Name	FirstName ASC
Title	Title	Title ASC
City	City	City ASC
Country	Country	Country ASC

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Title: Bidirectional Sorting on Any Column in DataGrid
Name: brian
Date: 2007-08-08 10:39:14 PM
Comment:
thanks a lot.It really very helpful
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