dynamic control at runtime with maintaining viewstate

Posted Date: 05 Jul 2008 Resource Type: Code Snippets Category: ASP.NET WebForms

Posted By: Sujit Kumar Member Level: Gold
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Points: 2

Suppose you want to generate runtime control and add it with your page and you want that when your page goes for postback then the entered value is remain in your textbox etc.

then you have to do these things.

first create container control on aspx page like:

now on .cs you have to write to generate control and add control to this table Table1.

first create two static variable at class
public static int NoOfRows = 5;
public static int ctlID = 0;

now write a function to create control

public void createTable()
{
try
{
// Total number of cells per row (columns).
int cellCtr;
// Current cell counter
int cellCnt;

//rowCnt = row;
cellCnt = 4;
DataTable objDT = new DataTable();
objDT = clsInspection.Get_Faults();
for (int Counter = 1; Counter <= NoOfRows; Counter++)
{

// Create new row and add it to the table.
TableRow tRow = new TableRow();
Table1.Rows.Add(tRow);
for (cellCtr = 1; cellCtr <= cellCnt; cellCtr++)
{
// Create a new cell and add it to the row.

TableCell tCell = new TableCell();

if (cellCtr == 1)
{
DropDownList ddl = new DropDownList();
ddl.ID = "ddl_" + ctlID.ToString();
ddl.Width = 170;
ddl.CssClass = "dropdown";

ddl.DataSource = objDT;
ddl.DataTextField = "Faults";
ddl.DataValueField = "Fault_ID";
ddl.DataBind();
ddl.Items.Insert(0, "Select Faults");
tCell.Controls.Add(ddl);

}
else
{
TextBox txt = new TextBox();
txt.ID = "txt_" + ctlID.ToString();
txt.CssClass = "textbox";
txt.Width = 170;
tCell.Controls.Add(txt);
}

tRow.Cells.Add(tCell);

ctlID++;

}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
//lblErrorMessage.Text = "Error : " + ex.Message.ToString();
//mdlPopup.Show();
}
}

now for maintaine viewstate you have to override method
protected override void CreateChildControls()
{
// Here we are recreating controls to persist the ViewState on every post back
if (Page.IsPostBack)
{
ctlID = 0;
NoOfRows += 1;
createTable();
}
else
{
createTable();
NoOfRows = 5;
}
}

the above method will maintane viewstate for your created control.

now you want that there will be a button on your page and when you click on button one new row will be crete with controls then you have to put button on page only and nothing to do for adding new row for Table1.

Responses

Author: adeel alvi 17 Jul 2008

Member Level: Bronze Points : 1

Great!!!

you were more better and simpler then msdn article regarding this topic.

"IT is simple to be difficult but it very difficult to be simple "

Regards

Adeel

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