Question

I have a DetailsView control that I want to populate with a data table. I’m doing this in code behind. After checking that the data table is created successfully, the code is:

  detailsView.DataSource = dataTable;
    detailsView.DataBind();

I run the program and the detailsView doesn’t show.Could the problem be that a data table potentially can have multiple rows and a details view only one? If that’s the problem is there a way of getting around it? I made sure in creating the data table that it has only one row. I also tried binding only one row in the data table but a data table row isn’t accepted as a data source. What’s the problem?

Answer 1

You have to add in a Bound field or Set the DetailsView AutoGenerateRows="true" to display the field in the detailsView. I am sure you forget to do this..

 <asp:DetailsView ID="DetailsView1" runat="server" Height="50px" Width="125px" >
        <Fields>
            <asp:BoundField DataField="FieldName" HeaderText="Field Title" />
            .......................
            .......................
        </Fields>
    </asp:DetailsView>