Question

Is it possible to populate asp.net GridView with data and operate on those data without dataBinding, as it is possible with Winforms DataGridView?

Answer 1

You can set the data source to a datatable that you can build up in code with whatever you like.

 var table = new DataTable();
 table.Columns.Add("Column1");
 table.Columns.Add("Column2");

var row = table.NewRow();
row["Column1"] = "test";
row["Column2"] = "test2";

table.Rows.Add(row);

GridView.DataSource = table;
GridView.DataBind();

You can also set a gridview’s data source with a list:

var yourList = new List<YourRowStuff>();

get the list from a database query or build it up manually in code….

GridView.DataSource = yourList;
GridView.DataBind();