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mgshortt

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Adding colums programatically to gridview

Mar 20, 2006 06:18 PM|LINK

Hi,

I want to add columns to a gridview control depending on the items in a config datatable in a for / next loop.

Can someone suggest the best way to do this? So far I have:

Dim row as dataset.itemsrow

Dim item as String = row.Item("ItemDesc")

For Each row In dataset.items

Dim Column As System.Web.UI.WebControls.BoundField

Column.DataField = item

GridView.Columns.Add(Column )

Next

Is this the correct or will this cause an error?
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jminond

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Re: Adding colums programatically to gridview

Mar 20, 2006 06:43 PM|LINK

Looks good to me, I code in C# and my code looks like

BoundColumn nameColumn;

foreach(..... )

{

nameColumn = new BoundColumn();

nameColumn.HeaderText = "row col name";

nameColumn.DataField = "row col field";

myDataGrid.Columns.Add(nameColumn);

}

which looks like what you got in vb.net there, so go for it.... if you get an error, let me know, and we will help you through it.

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jminond

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Re: Adding colums programatically to gridview

Mar 20, 2006 06:44 PM|LINK

Also, have a look at this article I found, sampling how to create columns of different forms, such as template columns.

http://www.gridviewguy.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?articleID=29

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mgshortt

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Re: Adding colums programatically to gridview

Mar 21, 2006 06:37 AM|LINK

Great, thanks. Will let you know how I get on

Mark
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mgshortt

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Re: Adding colums programatically to gridview

Mar 22, 2006 03:04 PM|LINK
For info this worked fine
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mhowell_hrx

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Re: Adding colums programatically to gridview

Jul 29, 2007 12:09 AM|LINK

Just wanted to follow up, with something that took me some time to figure out:

For the DataGrid object, use the BoundColumn object and add it to the Columns collection

For the GridView object, use the BoundField object and add it to the Columns collection

Matthew