Question

I have this GridView that I’m trying to bind data to and I need to create a new class with all my properties and display them in the Grid. Is this supposed to be a list collection because I tried a list but the Grid wasn’t able to find the names in the list.

I usually don’t deal with collections. So, I’m not very familiar with it. I just need some guidance on how this should be. I know I need a class for my collection and my properties are strings.

//This is where I am stuck, not sure how to set these and put these in a list.
public class Product
{
    string Title;
    string SmallImage;
}

<form id="ResultsForm" runat="server">
    <div id="SearchBox">
        <asp:TextBox ID="SearchBoxText" runat="server" Height="20px" Width="400px"></asp:TextBox>
        <asp:Button ID="SearchButton" runat="server" Height="30px" Width="100px" Text="Search" OnClick="SearchButton_Click" />
    </div>

    <div id="ResultsTable">
        <asp:GridView runat="server" ID="myGrid" 
                      OnRowCommand="MyGrid_RowCommand">
            <Columns>
                <asp:TemplateField>
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <img src='<%#Eval("SmallImage") %>' />
                    </ItemTemplate>
                </asp:TemplateField>

                <asp:TemplateField>
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <div>Title: <%#Eval("Title") %>  </div>
                        <div>Weight: <%#Eval("Weight") %>  </div>
                        <asp:Button runat="server" ID="GetOfferButton" CommandArgument='<%#Eval("OfferID") %>'></asp:Button>
                    </ItemTemplate>
                </asp:TemplateField>
            </Columns>
        </asp:GridView>
    </div>
</form>

Answer 1

1) Create class in separate file… like Product.cs

 public class Product
    {

        public string Title { get; set; }
        public string SmallImage { get; set; }
    }

2) In your aspx.cs

 protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
            {

                if(!Page.IsPostBack)
                {
                 List<Product> lst = new List<Product>();
                 lst.Add(new Product(){Title="title 1", SmallImage = "some path"});
                 lst.Add(new Product(){Title="title 2", SmallImage = "some "});
                 myGrid.DataSource = lst;
                 myGrid.DataBind();
                }

            }