Bidirectional Sorting on Any Column in DataGrid
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by Pani Baruri & Abhijit Mandrekar
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Part 1: VB.NET Code


 

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _

ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

        'Put user code to initialize the page here

        If Not Page.IsPostBack Then

            BindDataGrid("EmployeeID ASC")

        End If

    End Sub

 

    Private Sub BindDataGrid(ByVal strSortField As String)

        Dim cn As SqlConnection

        Dim cmdSelect As SqlCommand

 

        cn = New SqlConnection("Server=localhost;UID=sa;PWD=;Database=Northwind")

        cmdSelect = New SqlCommand("Select * From employees Order By " & strSortField, cn)

        cn.Open()

        DataGrid1.DataSource = cmdSelect.ExecuteReader()

        DataGrid1.DataBind()

        cn.Close()

 

    End Sub

 

 

 

    Private Sub DataGrid1_SortCommand(ByVal source As Object, _

ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridSortCommandEventArgs) _

Handles DataGrid1.SortCommand

        Dim arrSortExpr() As String

        Dim i As Integer

 

        If e.SortExpression = "" Then Return

 

        BindDataGrid(e.SortExpression)

 

        arrSortExpr = Split(e.SortExpression, " ")

        For i = 0 To DataGrid1.Columns().Count - 1

            If (DataGrid1.Columns(i).SortExpression = e.SortExpression) Then

                If UCase(arrSortExpr(1)) = "ASC" Then

                    arrSortExpr(1) = "DESC"

                ElseIf UCase(arrSortExpr(1)) = "DESC" Then

                    arrSortExpr(1) = "ASC"

                End If

 

                DataGrid1.Columns(i).SortExpression = arrSortExpr(0) & " " & arrSortExpr(1)

                Exit For

            End If

        Next

    End Sub

 


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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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