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FormView not passing a value contained within "runat=server" row

I have the following code in the EditItemTemplate of my FormView: <tr id="primaryGroupRow" runat="server"> <td class="Fieldname">Primary Group:</td> <td><asp:DropDownList ID="iPrimaryGroupDropDownList" runat="server" DataSourceID="GroupDataSource" CssClass="PageText" DataTextField="sGroupName" DataValueField="iGroupID" SelectedValu...

ASP.NET multiple types of controls to insert a record

Hi SO, ASP.NET newbie here. I would like to create a form with multiple types of controls for inserting a single record into a database table. This record has a "Type" field which is a foreign key, and I would like to populate a combobox with the possible values for it. I tried drag'n'dropping the table in design view (like in windows f...

Getting column names from oldValues IOrderedDictionary

Hi, I understand that the oldValues property of FormViewUpdatedEventArgs contains field name/value pairs for an update. I can certainly access the values using for example e.OldValues(x) - because the default member has been declared in the system.. but how can I pull out the column/field name in this case? I've tried casting oldValu...

Assign Event Programmatically to Child Inside FormView

I realize you can declaratively assign an event handler to a child control inside a formview by adding its attribute on the aspx page (i.e. onclick="Button_Click"), but if I wanted to do this programmatically, how would I go about it? That control isn't going to be found through FormView.FindControl in the Page's Init or Load events, so ...

Are DetailsView /FormView enough rich for Edit and Insert ?

Hi I'm wondering are DetailsView/FormView and ObjectDataSource have enough capability for Inserting/Editing your records or not ? Or better ask you Do you prefer use them or make your form by your own ? Because some times it's not easy to use them for complicated task , On the other hand when you have a lot of fields , that's over ki...

Inserting with form view

I have a formview. With the datasource of the formview i want to insert a record into the database, but i want to insert a value i get from a method i create in code. Doesn't that mean that i will not be able to directly code this onto the Data source using the wizard? ...

How to create default ItemTemplate for MyFormView:FormView

I need to create MyFormView inherited from FormView. When ItemTemplate of MyFormView is null, It automatic use my default template. Any Idea. Thank You. ...

ASP.NET: How do "update" a field in the <EditItemTemplate> that has a null value in the database (SQL)

Hi All, I am using a FormView control. The allows me to update records in the database. However, when a database field is null I can not update the field on the form. It works fine when the field is not a null value. I am not using any code behind (C#) to bind the data or manipulate the data. I have read that when there is a nu...

if else statement within formview

Hi i have a FormView, it renders fields from a SQLServer database but also much static text specific to the database value I get. I dont know if this can be done in the code behind and put all this in a function . I put it in my formview <ItemTemplate> <% If Eval("Feature1") = "Yes" Then %> <%# Eval("Username") %> A lot of text <% e...

Master(Formview)/Detail(Gridview) c# Example

Does anyone have an example of a formview with a gridview inside the EditTemplate using c#? The datasource of the gridview is a datatable. When setting the dt datasource I get the error Object reference not set to an instance of an object Gridview gv1 = (Gridview)fv1.FindControl("gv1") as GridView; DataTable dtH = gv1.DataSource as Dat...

FormView.FindControl() returns null until DataBind()

Why method FindControl() returns null on FormView until call DataBind(). After that it returns everything correctly? What workaround are there? Call DataBind() before first call of FindControl() ? ...

How to bind field in form view to different data set?

Hi, This is probably a simple question, but I can't seem to find an answer. One of my web pages has an ASP.NET FormView and two SqlDataSource controls. I need to show data from both datasource controls in the FormView. Most of the data will come from datasource1, with 2 or 3 items coming from datasource 2. The way I am trying to do ...

Linq to SQL: How can I update a formview that has data from multiple tables?

Take a simple example: I have a customer table and an account table both with customerID field. I want to formview that can update data in both tables. FormView: First Name (Customer) Last Name (Customer) Address (Customer) AccountRate (Account) How can I do this with Linq to SQL? Do I just use Bind statements like Bind("Account.A...

Table filled with controls inside an ASP.NET FormView , get controls?

What is the trick to get the controls inside the FormView. I was getting them with FindControl() but, now i cant get access on them. Example: i have some ImageButton on the FooterTemplate, great i can get those smoothly, when it comes to the controls inside the FormView!!! null every control. Do you think i should name them differently i...

Automatically bind ASP.NET FormView to newly inserted record.

Is it possible to get a FormView to automatically default to ReadOnly mode on the record that it has just inserted via its InsertItemTemplate? It seems like this would be somethign that should come naturally to a FormView. ...

ASP.net form view blank page problem

Hi Formview1 is databound to SQLSource that has a while condition. this while condition has a term which is a control in my page set by user. The problem is when there is no match (between users' value and database) the page *becomes blank* i want the controls of my formview and rest of the page to still be available is that possbil...

How do I get the inserted id (or object) after an insert with the FormView/ObjectDataSource controls?

I have a series of classes that loosely fit the following pattern: public class CustomerInfo { public int Id {get; set;} public string Name {get; set;} } public class CustomerTable { public bool Insert(CustomerInfo info) { /*...*/ } public bool Update(CustomerInfo info) { /*...*/ } public CustomerInfo Get(int id) { ...

UpdatePanel In formview Insert and updateItem

Hi All, I use a FormView control with InsertItemTemplate and updateItemtemplate. In each ItemTemplate I would like using UpdatePanel with the same web control inside, but it returns me a compilation error. If I put an UpdatePanel in insert and not update it works. Why can t I not put in the same UpdatePanel insertItemTemplate and updat...

How do I Prevent FormView from clearing user's entered Values after Insert Method has fired?

I have been struggling with getting FormViews to work the way Microsoft expects me to for about a day and have figure a bunch of great stuff out. I can catch e.Exception and e.ReturnValue in the ObjectDataSource.Inserting Event Handler and I can even cheat and check other properties of the Object in the ObjectDataSource.ObjectDisposing ...

How should I set an asp.net label's text to some value in another control?

I'd like to set the text of two labels to values found in a FormView on a page (whose data comes from an SQLDataSource.) What's the best way to do this? I'm thinking of using the DataBound event for the FormView to set the label text to the value of a field in the FormView, or of using the SQLDataSource Selected event to set the labels...