Is their a way to extend or mess with the GridView control.
My goal is to add a column that has editing button (delete update, save,
cancel).

I did this with a template column and a little helper class. The class has
method that adds the column with all the controls, but, it happens at runtime.

What I would really like to just have is a property on the control that says
AddEditingFunctionality. If true at design time the column would get added
and the user could do stuff the template column like changing
CausesValidation and stuff on the buttons in the template column.

Hi Chuck,

Regarding on this GridView extending issue, I have also replied your
another thread "GridView ITemplate Columns", are they concerning the same
issue?

For your scenario, if you want to add a customized column(field) in
GridView which will have flexible setting to let user define in design-time
(aspx tempalte or through code), I think you can consider creating a custom
DataControlField class completely. Thus, you can use it as built-in
Gridview colums(such as BoundField) and add some properties in aspx markup
to control the runtime behavior. e.g.

<Columns>
<cc1:MyColumn property1="xxx" property2="xxxx" />
.....
</Columns>

here are some former threads that have discussed on creating custom
column/field for Gridview:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.data
gridcontrol/browse_thread/thread/85afe393d428cf73/299bbf4c24815e8b?

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.webc
ontrols/browse_thread/thread/652359e1358ecf6c/834ed1c6afdaa69b

and an additional MSDN article about customizing GridView:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/05/CuttingEdge/

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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thanks,
I'll try making the custom column type.

Hi Chuck,

How are you doing? Have you got any progress on this issue? If you have any
further questions or anything else we can help, please feel free to post
here.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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Thanks for your reply Chuck,

If you need any further help on this, please don't hesitate to post here.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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