I am coming from an ASP background where I feel like I could get in the code and do almost anything, but now with ASP.NET, it seems a lot harder to make things happen. 

For instance, I created this page with asp rather easily.....is there a specific control (like the gridview) that I can use to do something like this? As you can see, I need to break on two separate cartegories.  This is just a recordset with two joins ordered by the catregory, title, and version.  But then I need the icons on the left which I know I can do with template columns.  But can you do these breaks on categories as well?   Or am I better off, doing this with an asp:table ?  Please help.

You can use a GridView and using ItemTemplate format the data display.

Cheers

But how do you do breaks on categories using the gridview?  See Anti-Virus Software, then it breaks again at Trend.

When you use ItemTemplate in a GridView you are able to format the data display. You can use tables, div's or whatever. Copy and paste your html block from your asp page inside your item template and twick it accordingly. Use <%# Eval(columnName) %> to fill the fields you want.

Hope this helps

Cheers

thanks for your response.  I understand the itemtemplate and how it works, but the gridview doesn't allow for breaking like the example of the image I posted.  This is one recordset.

 ie.

CategoryMain, CategorySub, Softwaretitle, Price, etc.
I don't want to show CategoryMain and CategorySub on each row, I want to only show it once (almost like a report).  You see what I mean?

Hi jepatte ,

You can use nested gridview to do such thing. A contains B and B contains C.

Then set A's datasource as different kinds of software B's datasource as different kinds of  products and set C's datasource as details.

Each inner gridview is putted in container's itemtemplate tags.

ok, I almost understand.  To make this simpler, lets say I have one gridview inside another, so then I have 2 sqldatasources.  How do I make it so that the inner gridview only shows the child records for the current parent record that its on?  This is really just simething like a report except I need itemtemplate fields so I can display an edit/delete option.

Thanks

Hi,

You can bind datasource to your inner gridview manually on the event RowDataBound of parent gridview. Each time you retrieve different id from the row of parent gridview and generate sql statement to retrieve datasource to bind to inner gridview.

here is a great tutorial with exact goal:

http://www.asp.net/learn/data-access/tutorial-27-cs.aspx