I got a gridview with template fields.The first field is a dropdown list and second one is a label and third and 4th fields the user need to enter.After the enter button is pressed on the last field a new row is to be created with ddlist filled from the database.So my question is how can we make a gridview contain only one row in page load...

AMR

Set the PageSize attribute to 1.

hth.

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dear friend,

I am not able to sort it out even i give that attribute 1...

AMR

Something like this should work:

if(!Page.IsPostBack)
{
    gv.PageSize = 1;
    gv.DataSource = <datasource>;
    gv.DataBind();
}

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dear parson,
its not working parson.The thing is I got 3 records in database and the grid is displaying 3 records eventhou i give pagesize attribute as 1.and the three textboxes are not from the database.they are not databound...

AMR

Then why are your controls even in the GridView at all? The generated GridView is based soley off of values that are provided from controls that do not need to be connected to the datasource. Why not move these controls out of the gridview all together?

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