Thanks jim agin for taking time to respond to my post. below is the code that i used to create both master and detail page using gridview control.When I click the link from the master page the detail page comes up blank and i do not know what this is happenig.Could you please look at the code and give me a clue what i should do to fix it. thanks and have a blessed weekend
Master page
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<%@ Page Language="
VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="master.aspx.
vb" Inherits="_Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #333366; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal">
Master-Detail Page 1:</span><br />
<br />
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" BackColor="White"
BorderColor="#CC9966" BorderStyle="None" BorderWidth="1px" CellPadding="4" DataKeyNames="LCONTID"
DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" Width="100%">
<FooterStyle BackColor="#FFFFCC" ForeColor="#330099" />
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField="MIN(J.ROUTE)" HeaderText="T.H. Number" SortExpression="MIN(J.ROUTE)">
<ItemStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
<HeaderStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
</asp:BoundField>
<asp:BoundField DataField="LETTING" HeaderText="Letting Date" ReadOnly="True" SortExpression="LETTING">
<ItemStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
<HeaderStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
</asp:BoundField>
<asp:BoundField DataField="CALL" HeaderText="Call Number" ReadOnly="True" SortExpression="CALL">
<ItemStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
<HeaderStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
</asp:BoundField>
<asp:BoundField DataField="LCONTID" HeaderText="Contract Id" SortExpression="LCONTID">
<ItemStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
<HeaderStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
</asp:BoundField>
<asp:BoundField DataField="CPROJNUM" HeaderText="S.P. Number" SortExpression="CPROJNUM">
<ItemStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
<HeaderStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
</asp:BoundField>
<asp:BoundField DataField="CCNTY1" HeaderText="County Number" SortExpression="CCNTY1">
<ItemStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
<HeaderStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
</asp:BoundField>
<asp:BoundField DataField="CFACSSUP" HeaderText="District" SortExpression="CFACSSUP">
<ItemStyle Font-Size="Small" />
<HeaderStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
</asp:BoundField>
<asp:HyperLinkField DataNavigateUrlFields="LCONTID" DataNavigateUrlFormatString="detail.aspx?lcontid={ 0}"
Text="Details..." HeaderText="Details" >
<ItemStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
<HeaderStyle Font-Size="Small" HorizontalAlign="Left" />
</asp:HyperLinkField>
</Columns>
<RowStyle BackColor="White" ForeColor="#330099" />
<SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#FFCC66" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#663399" />
<PagerStyle BackColor="#FFFFCC" ForeColor="#330099" HorizontalAlign="Center" />
<HeaderStyle BackColor="#990000" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#FFFFCC" />
</asp:GridView>
<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString %>"
ProviderName="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString.ProviderName %>" SelectCommand="SELECT DISTINCT Min(J.ROUTE),L.LETTING, L.CALL,L.LCONTID,Q.CPROJNUM,Q.CFACSSUP,Q.CCNTY1 FROM VENDOR V, VENDADDR R, LETPROP L, PLANHOLD P,PROPOSAL Q, PROJECT J,PROPPROJ K WHERE V.VENDOR = R.VENDOR AND K.CONTID = Q.CONTID AND K.PCN = J.PCN AND L.LCONTID = K.CONTID AND P.VENDOR = V. VENDOR AND L.LETTING = P.LETTING AND P.LETTING = '06042801' AND L.CALL = P.CALL AND R.ADDRNUM = P.BILLTO group by V.VENDOR,R.ADDRNUM, V.VNAMEL, R.AADDR1,P.BILLTO,R.ACITY, R.ASTATE, R.AZIPCODE,R.VASST1,R.APHONE,L.LETTING, L.CALL,L.LCONTID,Q.CPROJNUM,Q.CFACSSUP,Q.CCNTY1">
</asp:SqlDataSource>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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detail page:
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<%@ Page Language="
VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="detail.aspx.
vb" Inherits="detail" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #333366; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal">
Page 2..........<br />
Vendor List For Current Letting:<br />
Please work for me I am running out of patient if you do now work soon i might abandon
you please work for me......<br />
</span>
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataKeyNames="LCONTID" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource2" CellPadding="4" ForeColor="#333333" GridLines="None" Width="100%">
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField="LCONTID" HeaderText="Contract Id" SortExpression="LCONTID" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="LETTING" HeaderText="Letting Date" SortExpression="LETTING" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="RT" HeaderText="Route Number" SortExpression="RT" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="VENDOR" HeaderText="Vendor" SortExpression="VENDOR" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="ADDRNUM" HeaderText="Address" SortExpression="ADDRNUM" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="VNAMEL" HeaderText="Vendor Name" SortExpression="VNAMEL" />
<asp:BoundField DataField="AADDR1" HeaderText="Address 2" SortExpression="AADDR1" />
</Columns>
<FooterStyle BackColor="#5D7B9D" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
<RowStyle BackColor="#F7F6F3" ForeColor="#333333" />
<EditRowStyle BackColor="#999999" />
<SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#E2DED6" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#333333" />
<PagerStyle BackColor="#284775" ForeColor="White" HorizontalAlign="Center" />
<HeaderStyle BackColor="#5D7B9D" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
<AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="White" ForeColor="#284775" />
</asp:GridView>
<asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource2" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString %>"
ProviderName="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnectionString.ProviderName %>" SelectCommand='SELECT DISTINCT "LCONTID", "LETTING", "RT", "VENDOR", "ADDRNUM", "VNAMEL", "AADDR1", "BILLTO" FROM "DETAILPHLFORBIDLET" WHERE ("LCONTID" = :LCONTID)'>
<SelectParameters>
<asp:QueryStringParameter Name="LCONTID" QueryStringField="LCONTID" Type="String" />
</SelectParameters>
</asp:SqlDataSource>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
master/detail page
