This is an example on the same line, if you want to give a custom header or formatting to dynamic gridview at run time.

http://www.vishwamohan.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ArticleID=25

might help:

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/dynamic_Columns_in_Grid.asp

I'm not sure if the following will work for a GridView, but it works for a DataGrid:

If you'd rather not build the whole DataGrid by hand, prefering to let VS2005 do the grunt work with the drag'n'drop it does so well, but want to adjust a dataGridItem's attributes conditionally, you can do that as well.

For example, say you're displaying ProductName, UnitPrice and UnitsInStock from the Products table of the Northwind database in a DataGrid.  You want to change the text color of the cells to gray if the Discontinued field is true, and you want to change the background color of the item's row cells to red if the UnitsInStock is less than 10 as a visual cue to the operator to reorder more of those units.

So, with your datagrid (dgProducts) built on the web page into BoundColumns whose DataFields are ProductName, UnitPrice and UnitsInStock (in that order) and with Discontinued loaded into a fourth BoundColumn (hidden with Visible="false"), you can make those individual changes in the sub that loads your data, immediately after you bind the dataset to the grid's datasource, as follows:

dgProducts.DataSource = ds
dgProducts.DataBind()

Dim itm As DataGridItem
For Each itm In dgProducts
   If itm.Cells(3).Text = False Then
      itm.Cells(0).ForeColor = Drawing.Color.Gray
      itm.Cells(1).ForeColor = Drawing.Color.Gray
      itm.Cells(2).ForeColor = Drawing.Color.Gray
   End If
   If CInt(itm.Cells(2).Text) < 10 Then
       itm.Cells(2).BackColor = Drawing.Color.Red
   End If
Next

I don't know how useful that is to anyone else, but it sure helped me.  I'll have to play around and see if there's a way to do this with a GridView; so far I haven't found the DataView's equivalent to a DataGridItem.

Hi,

I am looking forward to build a complete gridview (with row style) as custom control .

e.g:

<asp:GridView ID="gridViewLoanDetails" runat="server" CssClass=Label AutoGenerateColumns="False" BackColor="White" BorderColor="#999999" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="1px" CellPadding="3" ForeColor="Black" GridLines="Vertical" AllowPaging="True" PageSize="30">

<Columns>

<asp:BoundField DataField="month" HeaderText="Month" />

<asp:BoundField DataField="scheduledBalance" HeaderText="Scheduled Balance" />

<asp:BoundField DataField="interest" HeaderText="Interest" />

<asp:BoundField DataField="principalPayed" HeaderText="Principal Payed" />

<asp:BoundField DataField="emi" HeaderText="EMI" />

<asp:BoundField DataField="apr" HeaderText="APR" />

</Columns>

<FooterStyle BackColor="#CCCCCC" />

<SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#000099" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />

<PagerStyle BackColor="#999999" ForeColor="Black" HorizontalAlign="Center" />

<HeaderStyle BackColor="Black" Font-Bold="True" Font-Size="Small" ForeColor="White" />

<AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="#CCCCCC" />

</asp:GridView>

Thanks, 

Sorry its working

i used the link above and managed to generate a gridview dynamically with no problems. However....

i now need to take it a step further and add edit,update,delete funcions to it. Any ideas how?

Thanx for the Link "C#SharpSean"

was looking for C# code .......

It helped me to create a datagrid dynamically

Need to know - how to add edit functions

thanx

I am a novice of ASP.NET.Can you please explain in which context dynamic creation of GridView will be useful. 

In my case i am running quality data for pass fail/yields rates for different processes my users requested to have each process have its own "grid"

depending on which month I do not know how many grids i will need , Jan 4 processes, Feb 2 process March 6 .....

so I run my query to find out what operations were used for the time frame they selected , then I loop through and create a grid for each operation and fill with data.