Question

I have a web application that I am working on(ASP.NET 2.0 C#). In it I have a GridView whose data source is an Oracle database. I get the data into the gridview in my codebehind, and don’t set the datasource directly.

I wanted to create a hyperlink field (NAME) that takes me to a details page about a specific record. What ends up happening is that it creates the Hyperlink field as well as the regular field that it gets from the datasource, which I don’t want. If I remove the field from my SELECT statement, it gives an error saying something like: ‘NAME’ not found in datasource.

How can I eliminate the regular field, and get a hyperlink field instead? I have tried Gridview.Columns.Remove(columnlocation), but that won’t work coz the columns don’t exist there originally.

Please Help Thank you.

Answer 1

Instead of removing columns, disable AutoGenerateColumns property of the gridview and set your hyperlink column manually like that :

<asp:gridview id='GridView1'      autogeneratecolumns='false'     runat='server'>                         <asp:HyperLinkField DataNavigateUrlFields='UserID'              DataNavigateUrlFormatString='UserDetails.aspx?id={0}'             DataTextField='UserName' /> </asp:gridview>