How to delete multiple rows in a GridView?

[Michael]

It seems that a gridview allows us to delete only a single row at a time.
How to extend this functionality to select multiple rows and delete all of
the selected rows in a single stroke? just like what hotmail web UI is doing
now (having the option of selecting multiple rows (using the checkbox
provided) and perform a set of operations on them)

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

Hi Michael,

As for ASP.NET GridView control, the one-row based editing/updating is due
to its postback event processing mode. In that built-in postback processing
model, the edit/update/delete will only focus on a single row.

If you want to implement a multiple row based editing/deleting, you need to
use the default readonly mode and provide your own multi-row select
interface. For example, you can put an additional column in Gridview row
which contains a checkbox, and put an "delete" button in the GridView's
header or footer. In the postback event, you can manually loop through all
the GridViewRow to lookup the checkbox value in each row and determine
whether to perform deleting for the certain row.

Here are tow web articles that provide examples of add multi-row processing
in ASP.NET Gridview:

#Deleting Multiple Rows in a GridView
http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArtic...ctCookieSuppor
t=1

#Allowing Users to Delete Rows in a GridView Control
http://authors.aspalliance.com/aspxt...owinguserstode
leterowsingridview.aspx

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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>Reply-To: "Michael" <Mi**********@noemail.noemail>
From: "Michael" <Mi**********@noemail.noemail>
Subject: How to delete multiple rows in a GridView?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:01:25 +0800

It seems that a gridview allows us to delete only a single row at a time.
How to extend this functionality to select multiple rows and delete all of
the selected rows in a single stroke? just like what hotmail web UI is

doing

>now (having the option of selecting multiple rows (using the checkbox
provided) and perform a set of operations on them)

[Michael]

Thanks for the reply. It helps.
"Steven Cheng [MSFT]" <st*****@online.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:vF**************@TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl...

Hi Michael,

As for ASP.NET GridView control, the one-row based editing/updating is due
to its postback event processing mode. In that built-in postback
processing
model, the edit/update/delete will only focus on a single row.

If you want to implement a multiple row based editing/deleting, you need
to
use the default readonly mode and provide your own multi-row select
interface. For example, you can put an additional column in Gridview row
which contains a checkbox, and put an "delete" button in the GridView's
header or footer. In the postback event, you can manually loop through all
the GridViewRow to lookup the checkbox value in each row and determine
whether to perform deleting for the certain row.

Here are tow web articles that provide examples of add multi-row
processing
in ASP.NET Gridview:

#Deleting Multiple Rows in a GridView
http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArtic...ctCookieSuppor
t=1

#Allowing Users to Delete Rows in a GridView Control
http://authors.aspalliance.com/aspxt...owinguserstode
leterowsingridview.aspx

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service
provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at:
ms****@microsoft.com.

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rights.
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>>Reply-To: "Michael" <Mi**********@noemail.noemail>
From: "Michael" <Mi**********@noemail.noemail>
Subject: How to delete multiple rows in a GridView?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:01:25 +0800

It seems that a gridview allows us to delete only a single row at a time.
How to extend this functionality to select multiple rows and delete all of
the selected rows in a single stroke? just like what hotmail web UI is

doing

>>now (having the option of selecting multiple rows (using the checkbox
provided) and perform a set of operations on them)