Nested Grids in asp.net 2005

Are you saying that under each row of the parent gridview, you have a child gridview?

Yes and my objective is I want to be able to see the entired record instead of 6 fields.  Can we do that?

I assume the child gridview is defined in a TemplateField, right?

Yes and Prairiedog,  I have asked another question related to this topic.  I have changed things around to try to make it work but I got stuck.

Here is my question:  I want to display a record on the grid that has 5, 6 fields: first name, last name, DOB...  and a plus (+) field and this + sign will allow the user to view the entired record (50 fields).  I tried it by using gridview as main grid and DetailsView as inner grid so I can see all the fields in vertical.  Is it possible?  how can I make it work on the code behind?  Can you help me with this?

PS:  I was able to bind data to the main grid but can't make the detailsview work.

Any help will be appreciated.

<table id="tblStaged" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1" runat="server" style="width: 600px">
        <tbody>
	        <tr>
					<td class="userGrid" style="WIDTH: 900px; height: 600px;" valign="top">
                        <asp:GridView ID="GridStagedMain" runat="Server" Width="500px" BorderWidth="1px" BackColor="Gray"
								 AllowPaging="false" Font-Names="verdana" Font-Size="x-small" ForeColor="Black"
								 CellSpacing="0" CellPadding="2" CssClass="Shadow" DataKeyNames="VaultID" AutoGenerateColumns="false"  
								 BorderStyle="None" BorderColor="Black">
								<FooterStyle ForeColor="#003399" BackColor="#99CCCC"></FooterStyle>
								<PagerStyle CssClass="form" HorizontalAlign="Right" />
								<HeaderStyle CssClass="userGridHeader" ForeColor="#FF9900" Font-Size="X-Small"/>
                                <Columns>
                                    <asp:BoundField ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="center" DataField="VaultID" HeaderText="VaultID"/>
					                <asp:BoundField ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="center" DataField="firstname" HeaderText="firstname" />
					                <asp:BoundField ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="center" DataField="lastname" HeaderText="lastname" />
					                <asp:BoundField ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="center" DataField="dob" HeaderText="DOB" />
					                <asp:BoundField ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="center" DataField="gender" HeaderText="Gender" />
					                <asp:BoundField ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="center" DataField="offensedate" HeaderText="offensedate" />
					                <asp:BoundField ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="center" DataField="offensedescription" HeaderText="offensedescription" />
								        <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Record Detail">
								            <ItemTemplate>								        	
								                <div style="text-align:center;">
								                <asp:Button ID="btnStagedChild" Runat="server" Text="+" CommandName="+"></asp:Button></div>
					                            <asp:Button ID="btnNoStagedChild" Runat="server" Text="-" CommandName="-" Onclick="NotDisplayStagedDetail" Visible="False"></asp:Button>                        
                                                <asp:DetailsView ID="RecordDetail" runat="Server" DefaultMode="ReadOnly" HeaderText="Record Details">
                                                    <EmptyDataRowStyle Height="20px" />
                                                    <EditRowStyle Height="20px" />
                                                    <HeaderStyle BackColor="#CCCCCC" ForeColor="maroon" />
                                                </asp:DetailsView>    
			                                    </ItemTemplate> 						        
								        </asp:TemplateField>
                                </Columns>
                        </asp:GridView>
					</td>                        
			</tr>
		</tbody>
	</table>
 
 
 
   private void LoadBindGrid()
        {
 
            DataSet ds = DBQABusinessLayer.DBQA.GetRecords();
            DataView dv = ds.Tables[0].DefaultView;
            //bind the data
            GridStagedMain.DataSource = dv;
            GridStagedMain.DataBind();
        }

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Hmmm, never done this before. Give me some time and let me see if I can find something.

prairiedog:
I have come with different design where it first displays the grid and then the detailsview as the user click on the link button.  I will try one of yours in the near future because I am close to my deadline for this one.

I still accepted it as a solution and gave you the points since you've stepped up and worked with me on it :-).   I appreciated your help.

BC