Can anyone recommend a good code-behind reference, preferably in cookbook format, ie with many examples of what you can do with code-behind? I've been a newbie for about 10 months, slowly developing an application. I've lately come to realize that I can't proceed with certain refinements without code-behind work. But I can't seem to locate a complete and concise reference for code-behind. What I'd have is a reference that shows, through many examples, how to leverage code-behind to perform various tasks. For example (and this is just an example, as I've haphazardly found the solution on another forum), if you add a record in in DetailsView, how do you a) fire off a postback and b) select the just-added record in the associated gridview. So- lots of examples like that, perhaps with an index that includes which examples demonstrate difference concepts (like Gridrow()) would be very cool indeed.

Thanks in advance!

-Kurt

Kurt,

You'll likely find it to be difficult to locate a "complete and concise reference" for code-behind. ASP.NET code behind can theoretically do anything that falls within the .NET framework (aside from the obvious such as presentation type stuff).

What books have you gone thru so far? There are plenty of beginning books on ASP.NET and some recent ones on 3.5 that could get you started on understanding what you can do. From my experience, I've learned from figuring out how to do what I needed to do rather than what I could do. Necessity will drive the acquisition of skills.

-Peter
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