DataSource Controls :: About Data Presentation And Data Binding?
Mar 10, 2010
I have a SQL table with questions and store the answers. Depend on the user selections, I need to display dynamically the questions and try to get the answers for them. ie: sometime I need to display 3 questions, and get 3 answers; sometime 5 questions, and try to get 5 answers.I know about dynamically loading the questions and display them. But how do I dynamically binding some kind of data control to get the dynamic answers back?Normally, in .aspx I would have <asp:TextBox ID=MyAnswer ....> or <DropDownList ID=MyDropDownList....> then I would use the C# behind to refered to MyAnswer.Text or MyDropDownList.SelectItem.....But in the dynamicly generated forms, how do generate multiple questions and bind somekind of multiple "TextBox" with ID and be able to refer them from the c# behind?
Apologies if this is in the incorrect forum.. just a question about how to best structure some tables for a particular presentation of data. In the following table (2nd column) you'll see that each motorcycle product applies to a range of years. What is the best way to store this range of years in a relational db? At the moment I have a datefrom and a dateto field for the two ranges, but that may complicate things when I want to filter the table by a particular year. E.G. datefrom is 2006 & dateto is 2010 and I would like to filter by products for a 2008 model.
Scenario: I am creating a custom gridview control which has a custom CheckBoxTemplateField column (deriving from TemplateField class). This template field column has custom Checkboxheadertemplate (implementing ITemplate) and CheckboxItemTemplate (also implementing ITemplate). In InstantiateIn method of both templates (header as well as Item template), I am adding a checkbox control which has Autopostback = true.
My requirement is: I want to mark all the values in the binding column of datasource if checkbox in headertemplate is checked. I dont want to mark only rows visible on grid. I WANT TO MARK ALL ROWS IN DATASOURCE. I want to do this in _CheckedChanged event of checkbox in header template.
Problem I am facing: When I check/uncheck the checkbox in header, it postbacks. so in OnCheckedChanged event, gridview's datasource is null. Secondly, in any event of gridview, I could access only those rows of datasource for which corresponding rows are visible in gridview through Gridviewrow.DataItem property. But I want to set it for all rows in datasource.
We are using a tierd design with a Data Access Layer and classes for everything we need. This serves as an advantage because we do not have to write querys over and we can separate the Presentation layer from the Data Access Layer and Business Rules.I have always in the past populated GridViews, DataLists, repeaters,etc with SqlDataSources. This is what I have become accustomed to and I feel like it is simple. For querys such as Select * from Members, I feel like using a DataSource is simpler than having to go in the code and calling methods to populate and DataBind these presentation controls.
I am working with a gentleman who has introduced me to the world of Data Access Layers and we are breaking everything down into simeple, but effective queries to populate controls and do what we need to accomplish with this application. He is not very approving of using any type of DataSource. We are disagreeing on the time and place to use these class methods to call the database.So my question is, which is more widely used in the programming world? Do most people use DataSources to populate presentation controls regardless of the Data Access Layer they are working with? Which type of queries are best suited for a DAL - simple, populating queries or complicated joins and upserts?
My question is if my page size is 10 records per page and my query returning 100,000 rows then remaining all records are not in use for that page.
Is there any way so I can only fetch records from table as page size (10) with all page numbers at bottom and fetch next 10 records only when user clicks on next page number?
new to this forum, and visual studio web development. Here is what I want to do: -From a webpage on my website, I would like to upload multiple photos to an sql database, but instead of having a container or field name for each photo, i would like to have multiple photos on one field, on each record.Then, I would like to display it back one record at a time, but with the capability of displaying all the pics from the one field holding the pics. Similar to the function in MS Access, where I can upload mutiple photos in one field and then display them back by just scrolling through them on the same record.
I am trying to bind a DataTable into a ObjectDataSource. This ObjectDataSource data will be used to bind into my LocalReport in ReportViewer. I have already successfully binded my data into the DataTable. My problem now is how do i bind the data in my DataTable into the ObjectDataSource so that it can be used in my report?
I have a Dropdownlist in an itemTemplate in a gridview. My gridView binds to dataTable1 (from which the selected value for dropdown comes from) and dropDown binds to dataTable2 (i need to get DataValueField and DataTextField from here).
Im struggling with a way to bind multiple rows of sql data to specific controls, what im trying to acheive is having a list of questions / answers in my SQL db and loading them into my web form to build a questionaire.
The data i load into the form depends on criteria like which questionaire is it (there will be 2 seperate ones) and what language should it be loaded in, this will be controlled using drop down lists and passing these parameters to the SQL select statement.
The problem i have is i am unsure which method to pull the data out of the question column in my table, and bind it to seperate controls row by row, should i use a SQLDataReader or load the data into a dataset, or run a stored procedure to pull the data?
Which is the best way to get data from sql and bind it to controls in this situation?
I'm trying to implement a recipe search page that allows users to specify search criteria by selecting checkboxes that match desired recipe attributes. All the data is stored in a database uing tables with 1 - many relationships. Each recipe can have multiple attributes from any of 5 attribute tables. I want to find all the recipes that match the user-selected criteria and display them in a grid. For example, the user may want a breakfast (attribute 1) recipe that is made with fruit and milk (attributes 2 and 3), is low-fat and high fiber (attributes 4 and 5), and takes less than 15 minutes to prepare (attribute 6). The query for this example might look something like:
FROM recipes, recipeMeals, recipeDishes, recipeFoodGrps, recipeNutrients, recipeFixTimes
WHERE recipes.id = recipeMeals.recipeId and recipes.id = recipeDishes.recipeId and recipes.id = recipeFoodGrps.recipeId and recipes.id = recipeNutrients.recipeId and recipes.id = recipeFixTimes.recipeId and recipeMeals.mealId in (1) and recipeDishes.dishId in (5) and recipeFoodGrps.fdGrpId in (1, 6) and recipeNutrients.nutrAttsId in (2, 3) and recipeFixTimes.fixTimeId in (1)
I' can generate the SQL but can't figure out how to bind it to a grid control. No could I see how to get any of the data controls to build the query for me. Is there a way to say "execute this query and display the results in a GridView"?
I have a date base with a table named 'movies'. I want to take information on my database. I use a SQLDataSource. For my presentation, I use a repeater. Here is my code :
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But if for exemple, 'champ1' is empty in my database, i don't want to print it in the result of my query ! But i can't arrive ...
I'm using VS2008. When a dataset is bound to the DataSource of a ListView, SelectedIndexChanged event does not fire. If I used DataSourceID instead, it has no problem. But SelectedIndexChanging event fires for both.
why and how I can get SelectedIndexChanged event fired when DataSource is used?
I am trying to bind the datasource of a ddl which is located inside the EditTemplate of a TemplateField.When is the best time to bind this datasource (after loading grid, before editing, ? (Note: I must do this in code behind).I am currently trying to bind it on the edit command:
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The issue is that the list retrieved from the LoadLists method is null when passing to the LoadList method where the datasource is bound.
I have a datasource (quite heavy to run) and a Gridview on the page.
By default when the page is loaded the datasource and Gridview bind and display. However since the datasource is heavy I want on page load these 2 will not bind.
I want them to bind only on a button click. How to stop the datasource and Gridview from binding on 1st page load ?
I have few textboxes and I want to search the text (partial search is also required) in the database and then show the result in a telerik grid. The grid has to be hidden initially and when I click the search button it should show up and display the results.
i have a database and binded it to a drop down list to show all the IDs on page_load. This is working fine
i have placed two textboxes and one button on my same form. when i chose a specific ID from my drop down list and click on the button the textboxes should show the respective data(name and gender). But when i click on chose an id and click the button it show datatype error...still it did not
i hav a gridview ... now i need to add certain number of rows... say 5 rows .... which would b blank .. the rows consist of itemtemplate of textboxes.. here is the grid ...
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now i am binding this gridview with certain data say :
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now the problem is if the row contains 2 data originally ... then it alwz shows up with only two rows with binded data... but what i want is 2 (databinded rows ) + 5 (empty rows with textbox ) = 7 grid view rows .... now how to do it ... after i hav binded the textbox with data already....with some empty columns corresponding to the above code ?
.I have a search page where I would search for an item and it would dispaly the results in a gridview...
I have allowed paging and set page size to 10..now I can see the 10 results in the first page and also see the page numbers at the bottom of gridview. But now when i click on the page 2, the method gridview_pageindexchanging is triggered but the result set is not dispalyed. My code is as below..
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i understand that the data is not binding in the GridView1_PageIndexChanging method..I do not know how can I make data bind..
I'm trying to build a chart in my application which will act as a client for an ASP.NET 3.5 web service that I created. The error I get is as follows:
Series data points do not support values of type System.Data.DataViewManagerListItemTypeDescriptor only values of these types can be used: Double, Decimal, Single, int, long, uint, ulong, String, DateTime, short, ushort.
I've tried various ways to resolve this but can't. This error points at the chtStats.DataBind() line in the code below:
