What's the general approach to binding data controls in gridview templates? The datasource in this case is a DataTable object.

Any guidance on this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

It depends.

One way to do this is to hook up the ItemDataBound event of the GridView. Inside the event handler, you get a reference to the DataItem and then bind whatever you need to bind.

Alternatively, you can define a *DataSource object inside the template, and then parameterize the object with a control inside the template for the GridView.

What you choose depends on the data you want to bind. Can you give an example?

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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Thanks for your input. I was getting ahead of myself in terms of design concepts. I'm now working my way through the actual development to where I'll need that feature...I'll provide an example (or let you know I've figured it out) hopefully in the next several days. I appreciate the help.

I have a situation with GridView. Gridview contains fields, one of which is foreign key (integer) but I want to show the description from the parent table e.g.

Table1: Client (Code, Name, Address etc)
Table2: JobMaster (Job, ClientCode, Date etc)

Now there is an ObjectDataSource connected with Table2's DAL and gridview is connected with this ObjectDataSource. Rather than showing ClientCode is gridview I would like to show Client Name which is in a different table (different DAL).

Help much appreciated

Hi there,

You're better off opening a new topic for this, instead of continuing an (un)related existing post.

That said, I am not sure I understand the problem. Do you have one GridView with one ObjectDataSouce on the page? Or do you have multiple and are you trying to get the name from the first into the second?

In the first case, you'll need to change the DataObject that is the source for the GridView and ObjectDataSOurce. Data that isn't there, isn't there....

In the latter case, you could hook into some event of the second GridView (ItemDataBound for example), get a reference to the other GridView and its data, and use that in the second.

HtH,

Imar
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I thought of this when I posted so I had already created a new topic at http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=55781