Hello Imar,

in chapter 13, you set up two GridViews (one for the Genres and the other for the Reviews).

Both GridViews have a Delete button in common.

For the Genres, you enabled Deleting in the Smart Tasks panel of the GridView (page 459), whereas for the Reviews you generated the Delete statement in the Smart Tasks panel of the SqlDataSource (page 474).

Can you explain the reason for these different approaches ?
When should I take the first way and when the second one ?

Thank you

Hi there,

Although it may not be obvious at first, both methods actually do the same thing.

When you drag the database table on the page (step 7 on page 458), Visual Studio creates a SqlDataSource that supports deleting. For the manually created data source, you need to do this explicitly. The result is the same: the SqlDataSource has its DeleteCommand set up.

Deleting in the GridView is configured differently as well, but the final result is the same. When you enable it in the Smart Tasks panel, VS adds the following code to the GridView:

For the second GridView, in step 5 on page 475, you create a CommandField with its ShowDeleteButton set to true, resulting in the exact same code.

Hope this helps,

Imar

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