Building a DataGrid Helper Control for ASP.NET 1.x: Part 2
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Published: 23 Jun 2004
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Abstract
In Part 1 of this series, we built a DataGrid helper control that would drastically simplify the programming of a read-only data access page. In Part 2, we continue enhancing the control and show we can develop a data access page with sorting, paging, deleting, and updating capabilities without writing a single line of code.
by Li Chen
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In Part 1 of this series, we built a DataGrid helper control that would drastically simplify the programming of a read-only data access page. In Part 2, we continue our quest to enhance the control and use it to simplify the programming of a data access page with update and delete capability. We will push the idea to the extreme and show that we can also develop a data access page with sorting, paging, deleting and updating capabilities without writing a single line of code in ASP.NET 1.x, just like ASP.NET 2.0 has promised.

Again, we will start by examining a typical data access page with update and delete capability and identify repetitive code that can be moved into our control. We will then enhance the DataGridHelper control to handle update and delete. We will show how to use the control and conclude the article.

Now, let us take a look of a typical data access page first.


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User Comments

Title: Data Grid update   
Name: Rakesh Krishna
Date: 2008-08-20 3:18:10 AM
Comment:
plss help me how to write the code to update linkbutton in grid
Title: how to select all rows of a datagrid   
Name: dhananjay
Date: 2007-05-15 8:20:06 AM
Comment:
how to select all rows of a datagrid
Title: not bad   
Name: srinithy
Date: 2007-04-20 6:38:27 AM
Comment:
such codings is not bad . if there are some outputs means it is very useful to the users.
Title: Ok Good   
Name: S.R.Vidhyasagargee
Date: 2007-03-31 6:32:11 AM
Comment:
I need datagrid select,delete,update move next, delete
anybudy know this concept and I need Handling two grid shares information. Please e-mail me id vsagarin_2003@yahoo.co.in
Title: useless   
Name: jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
Date: 2007-03-29 4:29:45 AM
Comment:
this article was really useless
it does not carry any useful information
Title: DATE   
Name: KUSUM
Date: 2007-03-26 4:20:26 AM
Comment:
I was working on datagrid and this article made my work easy. Once again i am thanking the Author.
Title: Never seen before   
Name: govardhan
Date: 2007-01-05 12:19:08 AM
Comment:
This article really helped me a lot,thanks for this team.
Title: datagrid in dot net   
Name: ramesh
Date: 2006-11-15 2:34:53 AM
Comment:
I need datagrid select,delete,update move next, delete
anybudy know this concept mail me id rameshindya@yahoo.com
Title: Thanks   
Name: Arun ::.
Date: 2006-10-12 7:32:55 AM
Comment:
Hai,
I was working on datagrid and this article made my work easy. Once again i am thanking the Author.
Title: Easy to learn   
Name: Umapathi Naidu
Date: 2006-09-26 5:21:04 AM
Comment:
I am very happy work with asp.net, If got ant new task related to asp.net,c#, vb.net.

This site is very helpfull to me.

regards,
Naidu
Title: how set multi line with cel in the data grid?   
Name: suresh
Date: 2006-07-29 2:13:54 AM
Comment:
how set multi line with cel in the data grid?
Title: Wonderful   
Name: Sudhakar
Date: 2006-05-03 5:35:57 AM
Comment:
this is really very useful artical to evevy one
Title: Delete message   
Name: Ramesh
Date: 2006-02-23 4:49:22 AM
Comment:
Can you please send me the sample code for datagrid button column conformation messsage for deletion

Regards
Ramesh.M
Title: nice one   
Name: vishnu
Date: 2005-11-30 5:19:33 AM
Comment:
very useful article. waiting for u r next article
Title: Thank you   
Name: Shyam
Date: 2005-10-31 5:10:10 AM
Comment:
The article is very interesting and helpful. Thanks for the article
Title: Mr   
Name: Navid Iqbal
Date: 2005-06-03 11:50:52 AM
Comment:
Data Grid Control is a very useful option is very great option in asp.net, i thank to you that u provided me the Code.
Title: it help me from my one hours mind exercies   
Name: rajat
Date: 2005-03-16 1:57:55 AM
Comment:
thx for this
Title: Wicked   
Name: Hak
Date: 2005-03-11 6:40:28 AM
Comment:
I loved it, it will more helpfull if we can't ask users to print before deleting. i guess will need a print option.

Any help on that?

TA
Title: Update for VB   
Name: David
Date: 2005-03-08 3:58:57 PM
Comment:
Is VB code needed for the edit and update command to work? I don't see the update and edit VB code in the downloaded example. I keep getting an 'expected parameter' error.

Any help would be great. I love the datagrid.

David
Title: Re: textbox size   
Name: Li Chen
Date: 2004-12-22 12:35:33 PM
Comment:
Here is one of the ways to adjust the text box width:
1. Write an event handler for ItemCreated event of the Datagrid control. 2. If the ItemType is EditItem, use e.Item.Cells(TheColumnYouWantToAdjust).FindControl(0) method to get a reference to the textbox control. You can then set the width.
Title: textbox size   
Name: pandaz
Date: 2004-12-22 3:59:04 AM
Comment:
its a very useful article, but how do i adjust the size of the textbox after pressing the edit button?
Title: Test   
Name: Mayur
Date: 2004-12-21 6:56:59 AM
Comment:
Realy Nice thankx
Title: Very useful. But if I need PK with 2 columns ?   
Name: jkancio
Date: 2004-09-21 1:01:18 PM
Comment:
Congratulation ! very interesting control and tutorial.
You said: "In order to support a multiple-column key, we have to build our own key storage and retrieval mechanism...". Do you have some example showing how to do it ???
Title: DataGridHelper   
Name: Prem Kannan
Date: 2004-08-21 3:13:11 AM
Comment:
Hello,

I've gone through your DataGrid Control Helper. That was nice.

I need one help from you. How can I update the currently edited record automatically. I don't want to show UPDATE button. As and when he leaves the last column of the current record, system should automatically update the record.
Title: Title   
Name: Test
Date: 2004-08-17 11:52:30 AM
Comment:
Thank you for this. It is very helpful.
Title: Nice one   
Name: Pathik
Date: 2004-08-17 5:00:03 AM
Comment:
Really nice one!
Title: thank you!   
Name: John Braga
Date: 2004-08-17 3:58:49 AM
Comment:
Thank you for an interesting set of articles. I shall certainly be trying it out.

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