Hi,

Here's a newbie question.

I'm building a web-application for ASPNET 2.0.

I have a gridview showing info retrieved from the database. Now I want to add a seperate collumn having info determined partly by info present in the database, but also partly coming from info from external sources. E.g. file creation / save info of a file on a directory.

In the past (ASPNET 1.0) I used DataGrid and built my own datasources which I binded in page_load and refresed when the page-index changed.

What is an easy way to do using LLBLGEN under ASPNET 2.0?

Regards,

Jan

One easy way is to use a dataTable as the source of Data, and before binding create a new column and fill it with data.

You can retrieve the data as a TypedList, dynamicList or TypedView, all of them are dataTables.

you can also use a DataTable which is a result of an EntityView projection.

Hi Walaa,

I decided to add a template column to the gridview. Works fine.

Isn't it also possible to add a property to an entity and retreive that property in a llblgenprodatasource?

Regards,

Jan

Isn't it also possible to add a property to an entity and retreive that property in a llblgenprodatasource?

Yes, sure.

So, just adding a propery to e.g. CustomerEntity would achieve that that property is supplied by the datasource to the gridview? Or do I need to do something extra?

I looked for examples. In http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/archive/2006/06/09/LLBLGen-Pro-v2.0-with-ASP.NET-2.0.aspx the properties of a customer entity are extended in Extending the CustomerEntityFactory.

Is that the way to do it?

Hello,

if you add a customproperty to your entity, you will be able to show it on a gridview throught a llblgenpro datasource. You only have to add the column to your grid.

I tried that first, but it did not appear in the list of selectable items. Then I changed to template columns.

After your reaction, I tried it again. When I opened the window where you can pick columns, I saw that the property I added yesterday was in the list. So I removed the templatecolumns and added the property. That worked fine. Than I added another property. It did not appear in the list directly. I saved the application and restarted VS2005 and then it was in the list. Perhaps next time i should close and reopen the aspx screen after having added a property to an entity,

Thanks anyhow. It works great.

Jan

Hello,

Sometimes VS2005 doesn't refresh the data (even with the sp1) so the better way is to close an open again the file.

cheers