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Tip # 53: Did you know... How to edit the templates for gridview in VS designer?

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Gridview control has the flexibility to be configured how it's rendered using templates. Following steps show how the control's edit template can be changed in the Visual Studio Designer.

  • I have a GridView hooked up to Sqldatasource using Northwind.products. I have selected Generate Insert, update and delete statements while configuring the sql data source (by clicking the Advanced button)

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  • Click on smart task for grid view & select Enable Editing check box for the grid view

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  • Now to convert a column to use Template field. Select Edit columns from the Grid view Smarttask.

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  • Select the column name in the selected fields list and click on Convert this field into TemplateField & click OK

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  • Select Edit Templates from the gridview smarttask

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  • From the Display drop down select EditItemTemplate

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  • You will see the following

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  • You can update the template now. For example, I have dragged dropped requireFiledValidator into it

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  • If there are multiple columns converted to templates, you will see something like this & can select a particular column template to be edited.

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  • Switching to the source view, you will find that VS has generated the source code for the template changes done.

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  • Click on 'End template editing' from the smart task to exit editing the template

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Deepak Verma
SDET | Visual Web Developer

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    April 22, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    April 22, 2009
    Gridview control has the flexibility to be configured how it's rendered using templates. Following

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    April 23, 2009
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