Dear All,

I am using ObjectDataSource on a form. I want to use Session as its Parameter however within the session I have custom object stored rather than a string or int etc. How do I use this with ObjectDataSource?

Help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in anticipation.

Tahir

In the Selecting event, you can retrieve the object from the session, cast it, do whatever you want with it, and then reassign it to the parameter collection.....

Imar
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Imar,

Does that mean I dont have to define the parameter at design time i.e.

<SelectParameters>
<asp:SessionParameter Name="ABC" SessionField="XYZ /> </SelectParameters>

Have you tried it?

If you use asp:SessionParameter, aren't things taken care of automatically?? (Haven't tried this yet)

Otherwise, you can define the parameter as a simple <asp:Parameter> and set it in code behind.

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
http://Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004
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Imar,

While you are here, I read your article yesterday and have posted a query there. Will you be able to reply on that whenever your ready.

http://imar.spaanjaars.com/QuickDocId.aspx?quickdoc=416

Imar,

Oops you JUST posted it. Let me read it. Many thanks dear.

Tahir

Imar,

I have tested this and it works. Within the DAL the method should accept the object of type you have stored in Session. Then by using SessionParameter it passess the object. That object you are passing should also be marked Serializable.

In doing this I have encountered another issue. In a form when user clicks an item of a gridview, I want to store the DataItem (which in effect is an object of type I want to retrieve on next page) in a Session. It gets Nothing (null) when I try this behind SelectedIndexChange event!! I have template column (html checkbox) in first column of the grid, can that be the problem? The grid is binded to ObjectDataSource and I want to retrieve the Custom Object when user selects the grid. How can I accomplish this?

Many thanks

Tahir

Take a look here

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.gridviewrow.dataitem(d=i de).aspx

and here:

http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/fri.../24/11975.aspx

The DataItem is only available during and after the RowDataBound event.

In your case, it's probably best to retrieve the DataKey and then fetch the single item from your DAL based on the unique key.


HtH,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004
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Imar,

Many Thanks

Tahir