Adding Features to the DataGrid Control

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	ASP.NET Developer's JumpStart By Paul D. Sheriff, Ken Getz
	Table of Contents
	Chapter 16.  Using the DataGrid Control

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In this chapter, you'll place a DataGrid control on a page and add features. Specifically, you will perform the following tasks:

• Bind a DataGrid control to an ADO.NET DataSet

• Add numeric formatting to a currency field

• Add paging so users can move through subsets of the data

• Select an individual row

• Sort the data by clicking a column header

Figure 16.1 shows the finished page you'll be building as you work through this chapter.

Figure 16.1. It's easy to create a bound table using the DataGrid control. To the browser, it's simply an HTML table with code added in for interactivity.

You will need to add a hyperlink to the main page to call the new page you build in this chapter. Follow these steps to add the link:

1. Open Main.aspx in design mode.

2. Add a new HyperLink control just below the Employees hyperlink.

3. Set the properties for this new HyperLink control as shown in Table 16.1.

Table 16.1. Set the New HyperLink Control's Properties Using These Values

Property	Value
ID	hypCatSales
Text	Sales by Category
NavigateURL	CategorySales.aspx

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