Author Vadivel Date created 19-February-2003
Webmail vmvadivel@yahoo.com Organization ScapeVelocity Net Solution Ltd.,
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Scrollbars in DataGrid
In order to display a long list of items in a DataGrid with scrollbars rather than paging we need to make use div tag. Refer the sample source code provided below for further details.
The complete code listing follows:
<%@ Page language="c#" Codebehind="ScrollDatagrid.aspx.cs" AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="testing.ScrollDatagrid" %>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>Scrolling Datagrid</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio 7.0">
<meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" Content="C#">
<meta name="vs_defaultClientScript" content="JavaScript">
<meta name="vs_targetSchema" content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5">
</HEAD>
<body MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout">
<form id="ScrollDatagrid" method="post" runat="server">
<div id="div1" style="OVERFLOW: auto; HEIGHT: 250px">
<asp:DataGrid id="dtgrid" runat="server"></asp:DataGrid>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</HTML>
Code behind file:
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
namespace testing
{
public class ScrollDatagrid : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGrid dtgrid;
string ConnectionString;
public ScrollDatagrid()
{
//Fetching the connection string from web.config file
ConnectionString = System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["constr"];
}
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
BindTable();
}
private void BindTable()
{
string strconn;
SqlDataAdapter MySQLDA = new SqlDataAdapter();
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
SqlConnection MySQLCns = new SqlConnection(ConnectionString);
MySQLCns.Open();
strconn = "select field1,field2 from tablename";
MySQLDA = new SqlDataAdapter(strconn,MySQLCns);
MySQLDA.Fill(ds);
dtgrid.DataSource= ds;
dtgrid.DataBind();
}
#region Web Form Designer generated code
override protected void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
//
// CODEGEN: This call is required by the ASP.NET Web Form Designer.
//
InitializeComponent();
base.OnInit(e);
}
/// <summary>
/// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
/// the contents of this method with the code editor.
/// </summary>
private void InitializeComponent()
{
this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Page_Load);
}
#endregion
}
}