Chapter 15 No Alternate color lines

TonyS · May 12th, 2014, 12:28 PM

I am not getting alternate color lines in the Genres' GridView as shown on page 554 fig. 15-2

In the GridView.skin I am seeing a warning:

C:\BegASPNET\Site\App_Themes\Management\GridView.s kin: ASP.NET runtime error: There is no build provider registered for the extension '.skin'. You can register one in the <compilation><buildProviders> section in machine.config or web.config. Make sure is has a BuildProviderAppliesToAttribute attribute which includes the value 'Web' or 'All'.

Could this be the reason there are no alternatin colors?

Thanks

Imar · May 13th, 2014, 06:02 AM

Hi Tony,

The warning is by design because you associated skins with the User Control editor. Page 247 mentions this briefly. You can safely ignore this warning.

Can you post your code for alternate color lines? It may be an issue with casing but it's hard to say without seeing your code.

Cheers,

Imar

TonyS · May 13th, 2014, 02:21 PM

Under the GridView1 code I found this:
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" ...
<AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="White" />

When I changed White to another color lightgreen the alternating lines show up.

The code seems not to be able to find the code in the Management.css file:
.GridViewAlternatingRowStyle
{
background-color: #e1e1e1;
}

<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$('.GridView tr:odd:not(.GridViewPagerStyle)').addClass('GridVi ewAlternatingRowStyle');
});
</script>

That's all I can figure out.

Thanks

Imar · May 13th, 2014, 07:03 PM

Looks like you missed an earlier step that explained how to remove the various style templates. Your current AlternatingRowStyle creates an in-line style which overrules external styles. Simply remove that style from the GridView and it should work.

Cheers,

Imar