"WhiskeyRomeo" wrote:

> I working through a book on ASP.Net, I added a GridView and SQLDataSource.
> Everything worked as expected upon debugging. The rows were displayed with
> the Update and Delete buttons on each row. Upon pressing update button on a
> row the row did go into edit mode. Changine a few fields and pressing Update
> resulted in nothing happening.
>
> In looking at the book's solution is has a entry for each command button as
> follows:
>
> CausesValidation="False"
>
> Adding this property to each command button results in the GridView working
> properly. It is as if this line should say AutoPostBack="True".
>
> If this property is required, why isn't automatically entered when dropping
> a GridView on the design surface?
>
> If you set CauseValidation="True", again the Update button does not cause a
> postback even if you turn the updatable columns into template columns and
> create a RequiredField validator for each.
>