I'm confused by the role that the viewState plays in maintaining the values
in a datagrid.
I have a datagrid that is loaded with the appropriate data. A new page is
choosen, firing the PageIndexChanged event.  Does the viewState maintain the

I have a grid where I am returning text in a column, then values for that
row.. and the data is hierarchical.
For example something like:
Products   Price

I would like to have a friendly status message onMouseOver of sort columns
in the datagrid. Instead of the standard "javascript:__doPostBack...", I
would like to have status bar show "Sort By [ColumnName]".
Likewise, I would like to be able to have status messages based on row for

I'm not sure if I am just missing some obvious function call or what.  
I want to be able to get the overall count of the records returned from
my database query. When I use datagrid.Item.Count, it only returns the
count for the current page. I see a property that lists pagecount, ...

I have a datagrid with a checkbox as one of the column. When the
checkboxes are selected and a delete button at the bottom of the grid
is clicked, I want the selected row in grid to be deleted. I am having
trouble in determining the key of the selected record. I get the error

I have a datagrid bound to a dataview which is connected to a dataset which
is bound to MSAccess.
The following code deletes a record, but not the one for which I click the
delete link. I think this is because the data rows are in a different order

How to return a keyvalue from popup windows with datagrid control to parent
windows through JavaScript?

I am trying to a datagrid into a small space and can't get it to conform.
Any way to beat the minimum height of the datagrid so that it will show only
two or three rows?

How do I set the column width of a column in a DataGrid programatically (in
ASP.NET web pages)?
I understand I may have to use DataGridTableStyle, but I can't get this to
work with web pages.

Hi group,
  Is anyone have an idea on how to define/ create the datagrid based on the
xml file. For example, a XML file stored the grid columns' name,  data type,
and the format string. How can i apply this XML and create the columns as

I add a hyperlink column to the datagrid, this column populated with
messageID from DB. And the link is to messageDeail.aspx, and I want to bring
a perimeter messageNo with the value messageID( which is from database.
But I try the following code, the datagrid display right, the ...

Hi - Is it impossible to define multiple datakeys for a datagrid? If
so - any ideas on how to update a record selected from a datagrid
using the Edit, Update, Cancel buttons? I can not get past trying to
define my datakeys. I can define one of the keys but what about the

I've got two pages, each displaying a datagrid with a Select button
column.
With one the Select command is handled in the codebehind and works
fine.

I am trying to change the header of a column on the datagrid.  I
reference the column using the syntax myGrid.Columns(0).HeaderText.
The problem is that the change is not reflected on the grid.  Any
ideas?

All I want to do is assign an editable checkbox to a column of type
CHAR(1)..values 'Y' or 'N'. I have the template column specified, but I keep
getting a cast exception. Is there no intrinsic conversion to 'bool' for
this value range? I understand how to convert prior to update.