While working with template-based controls such as the Repeater, DataList or DataGrid, it often happens that you don’t want to show just plain text as it is retrieved from the data source, but want to interpret the data and represent it in other ways. For example, you may want to
DataGrid’s sorting functionality is not automatic, the control takes care of “just” rendering the column headers as hyperlinks, and gives you the ability to handle the click on those links, by means of the SortCommand event. Then you manually sort the records (by means of a new DataView from an
The DataList and DataGrid controls easily allow to add a “Delete” button/hyperlink in your template. When clicked, this button/link raises a DeleteCommand event that you can handle to delete the data item of the parent DataList’s/DataGrid’s row. Here’s an example that shows how to declare two column in a DataGrid,
It happens frequently that you want to hide some input controls or links if the current user is not logged in (it runs with the anonymous account), or if the logged user is not a member of a specific group. For example, you may want to hide the Edit/Delete buttons
The DataGrid’s HyperLinkColumn column is great to have a column with an hyperlink that points to an Url with a parameter whose value is taken from the data source, but what if you need to build the target Url with more than one parameter taken from the data source? In