Chapter 11. Using the GridView Control
Chapter 11. Using the GridView Control
The GridView control is the workhorse of the ASP.NET 2.0 Framework. It is one of the most feature-rich and complicated of all the ASP.NET controls. The GridView control enables you to display, select, sort, page, and edit data items such as database records. Note The GridView control supersedes the DataGrid control included in the ASP.NET 1.x Framework. The DataGrid control is still included in ASP.NET 2.0 for backward compatibility, but you should use the GridView instead because it is a more powerful control. In this chapter, you learn everything you ever wanted to know about the GridView control. You learn how to use all the basic features of the GridView control. For example, you learn how to use this control to display, select, sort, page, and edit database records. You also learn how to use AJAX with the GridView control when sorting and paging records. You also get the chance to tackle several advanced topics. For example, you learn how to highlight certain rows in a GridView depending on the data the row represents. You also learn how to display column summaries. Finally, you learn how to extend the GridView control by building custom GridView fields. At the end of this chapter, we build a LongTextField, a DeleteButtonField, and a ValidatedField. |
