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ASP.NET Gridview user input textbox problems

Asked by: kingkev83

Hi All,

I am developing an shopping list Application with the items displayed in a grid view. There are two columns at the end which are template fields, one contains a textbox calles txtQuanity and the other contains a button called btnAdd.
Onclick i need to be able to add the details of the row and the quantity from the text box to a table in the database. However the gridview columns have filters which need the postback event to rebind the GV but when this happens the value entered in the textbox is lost so the quantity is "". how can i save the value before the page is reloaded???

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Answers

 

by: prairiedogPosted on 2008-05-19 at 08:16:20ID: 21598511

Check you Page_Load event handler.

You need to have a IsPostBack block to make sure that the GridView will not be rebound upon postbacks.

 

by: prairiedogPosted on 2008-05-19 at 08:18:04ID: 21598532

Something like this (if you need more information)
if (!IsPostBack)
{
      'Bind your GridView
}

 

by: Infinite_RecursionPosted on 2008-05-19 at 10:26:51ID: 21599753

OK the key thing here is not to rebind (if you have to rebind at all that is) until you have used the values from the GridView. An appropriate place to Bind your GridView on subsequent postbacks might be the OnPrerender method, you can override that method to accomplish your goals.

 

by: kingkev83Posted on 2008-05-20 at 16:09:57ID: 21611056

I have to rebind the gridview because i have filter dropdowns which are linked columns in the gridview. The columns are populated with a distinct query based on the populate gridview query so to select a value from the dropdown fllter it needs to rebuild the gridview and the dropdown lists which is why it needs a postback to trigger the rowbounds event in the gridview. unless there is a way to do this without a postback?

 

by: Infinite_RecursionPosted on 2008-05-21 at 00:29:11ID: 21612771

So when u need to rebind is NOT when you need to use the Data that goes away when you rebind, so don't rebind on Page_Load for example, just rebind at the latest event possible.

 

by: kingkev83Posted on 2008-06-10 at 06:34:48ID: 21751061

Found the solution, a bit of what everyone said above.

basically had to bind the gridview in the init page function instead of the page load, then any reloads will then not be bound until after the textbox has been read and the update.

Thanks for your help guys

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