Question

I was using Gridview for a while now and I have noticed that its very easy to create a simple table and populate it with date f.e.

ID Name Surename Phone .....

1 Tom   Tomtom    111122233 
2 Vic   VicVic    21231231
3 Rik   RikRik    123545343

So here we have a simple gridview with three records, every record is in one line!
What I need is to put one record info in three lines like here:

           ID Name Surename Phone .....

         / 1 Tom   Tomtom    111122233 
record1 {  Additional info: blablabla
         \ More info: xxxxx 
         / 2 Vic   VicVic    21231231
record2 {  Additional info: blablabla
         \ More info: xxxxx 
         / 3 Rik   RikRik    123545343
record3 {  Additional info: blablabla
         \ More info: xxxxx

So here we have a Gridview and here we show One record’s info in three lines…So how to do this?

I was using this code to populate my gridview when I have an Object of data but this works only with a single lines of records

private void grdMyGrid_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
        {

            if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
            {
                MyObject ObjectEl = (MyObject)e.Row.DataItem;
                e.Row.Cells[0].Text = ObjectEl.ID.ToString();
                e.Row.Cells[1].Text = ObjectEl.Name.ToString();
                e.Row.Cells[2].Text = ObjectEl.Surename.ToString();

                LinkButton lbtConfigure = (LinkButton)e.Row.Cells[3].FindControl("lbtConfigure");
                lbtConfigure.CommandArgument = Convert.ToString(ObjectEl.ID);

            }
        }

Answer 1

Templating rows like this is possible in a gridview, but the listview control is much better suited to this type of data.

Take a look here, this will get you started.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/08/10/the-asp-listview-control-part-1-building-a-product-listing-page-with-clean-css-ui.aspx