Easy Question: Dynamically Formatting DataGrid columns

So far, the grid is displayed with all values correct, etc. It's just the formatting now. Here is the code for DataSet and DataGrid creation:

private void eventsListing ()
            {
                  DataSet ds = new DataSet ();
                  ds.Tables.Add (new DataTable ());
                  object [] values;
                  ds.Tables [0].Columns.Add (new DataColumn ("Event", typeof (string)));
                  ds.Tables [0].Columns.Add (new DataColumn ("Expected Attendance", typeof (string)));

                  for (int counter = 0; counter < 8; counter++)
                  {
                        values = new object [] {(getEventName ((ExtendedEvents)counter)),
                                                               getCountPerEvent ((ExtendedEvents) counter)};
                        ds.Tables [0].Rows.Add (values);
                  }
                                    
                  dgRSVP.DataSource = ds.Tables [0];
                  dgRSVP.DataBind ();
                  
                  return;
            }

Have you tried playing with the html side:

example:

<asp:datagrid >
and the many properties it has...... <BoundColumn>..... <HyperLinkColumn>........<TemplateColumn>....... etc...                                                                                                

DataSet ds = new DataSet ();
ds.Tables.Add (new DataTable ("TableName"));
object [] values;
ds.Tables [0].Columns.Add (new DataColumn ("Event", typeof (string)));
ds.Tables [0].Columns.Add (new DataColumn ("Expected Attendance", typeof (string)));

for (int counter = 0; counter < 8; counter++)
  {
     values = new object [] {{(getEventName ((ExtendedEvents)counter)),
                                                     getCountPerEvent ((ExtendedEvents) counter)};    
     ds.Tables [0].Rows.Add (values);
  }

DataGridTableStyle dgts = new DataGridTableStyle();
dgts.MappingName = "TableName";

DataGridTextBoxColumn dgcs = new DataGridTextBoxColumn();
dgcs.MappingName = "Event";
dgcs.Width = 80;
dgts.GridColumnStyles.Add(dgcs);

dgcs = new DataGridTextBoxColumn();
dgcs.MappingName = "Expected Attendance";
dgcs.Width = 80;
dgts.GridColumnStyles.Add(dgcs);
dgRSVP.TableStyles.Add(dgts);                  
                             
dgRSVP.DataSource = ds.Tables [0];                  
               
return;
'****************************************************************
'*******Then******
private void dgRSVP_MouseUp(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e)
{
  string linkName = dgRSVP[dgRSVP.CurrentRowIndex,1].ToString();
  LinkLabel llbl = new LinkLabel();
  llbl.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(30, 10);
  llbl.AutoSize = true;
  llbl.Text = linkName;
  llbl.LinkClicked += new LinkLabelLinkClickedEventHandler(llbl_LinkClicked);

  DataGridTextBoxColumn dgtb = (DataGridTextBoxColumn)dgRSVP.TableStyles[0].GridColumnStyles[1];

  dgtb.TextBox.Controls.Clear();
  dgtb.TextBox.Controls.Add(llbl);            
}

just make sure you give you dataTable a name so the tablestyle knows what columns to map to.

Thank you so much for your help ryeandi. Your code looks really ingenious. The only thing is that I am using a WebForm and objects such as DataGridTableStyle seem to be only in the Windows Forms package.

Thank You for your help!

Taarik.

CNTITDEPT...This DataGrid will be created dynamically. Could you expand a bit on the HTML please. HTML isn't one of my strong points right now. :-)

I think I am on the wrong path here... it looks like you guys are writing for a WinForm not a WebForm, but if it was a Webform it still could be done dynamically using the textwriter to write the html on the fly.