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ObjectDataSourc e and Displaying Foreign Keys

Dear Group,

I went ahead and used the wizards to create a dataaccesslayer of my
database. I checked all my tables and in matter of a few seconds all my
tables and relations appeard in VS2005. I then configured the
dataadapters for each table to use automatically created stored
procedures by VS2005. Each table now has a select, insert, update,
delete query. So far so good.

The problem happens when I try to bind a table (Products) to a GridView
through the ObjectDataSourc e. Getting the data to display is easy. The
problem is that I don't want to display CategoryID in my gridView, I
would rather fetch the actual CatgeoryName which lives in another table
(Category) and CategoryID is a foreign key in my primary table
(Products).

Is there an easy way to do this in a web application? Or am I forced to
add a new query to my ProductTableAda pter and write a new stored
procedure that does a join query of the two tables? I tried that and
when I go to "define columns" in the GridView, CategoryName still
doesn't show up even if it's in the query. VS2005 also warns me when I
add queries that join multiple tables. Given this I can't help but
think that there must be an easier way.

Please help.

Nov 19 '05 #1
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