Add Controls to ListView

[Alan]

Hi All,

Is it possible to add other controls to the ListView control in C# windows
forms. i.e. I want to add a button column so to speak to the list view. You
can do this sort of thing with the datagrid in asp.net, however I think the
datagrid in c# is overly complex for what I'm wanting to do, and I'm not
even sure it is possible to do it in that.

Answers to both Controls would be appreciated.

Thanks

Alan

[Mohamoss]

Hi Alan
Yes you can add a button column to datagrid control. You can then write
event to handle clicks on that control ( in the event handler of…….. you
can handle event according to which button column was clicked… and on
which row if the datagrid it was clicked … and her is an example
First , you will add the datagrid control to the aspx page as follows
<asp:datagrid DataKeyField="DiscId" id="DataGrid1" style="Z-INDEX: 110;
LEFT: 8px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 408px"
runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" CellPadding="8"
BorderWidth="2px" BorderColor="Yellow">
<HeaderStyle ForeColor="White" BackColor="Indigo"></HeaderStyle>
<Columns>

<asp:BoundColumn DataField="FloatDiscNumber" SortExpression="DES"
HeaderText="FloatNumber">
<ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Center"></ItemStyle>
</asp:BoundColumn>
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="PackDescription" HeaderText="Catagory">
<ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Center"></ItemStyle>
</asp:BoundColumn>

<asp:ButtonColumn Text="Book" ButtonType="PushButton"
HeaderText="Reserve" CommandName="reserve">
<ItemStyle BackColor="Purple"></ItemStyle>
</asp:ButtonColumn>
<asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="DVD View">
<ItemStyle BackColor="Purple"></ItemStyle>
<ItemTemplate >
<asp:Button runat="server" Text="Details" CommandName="opencontent"
CausesValidation="false"></asp:Button>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateColumn>
</Columns>
</asp:datagrid>

Then inside your code you define a handler to the datagrid ItemCommand
event as follows

private void DataGrid1_ItemCommand(object source,
System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridCommandEventArgs e)
{
if(e.CommandName.Equals("reserve"))// here you know
// which button column was clicked
{
disks.row.PrimaryKey = new DataColumn[]{disks.row.Columns["DiscId"]};
DataRow row =
disks.row.Rows.Find(DataGrid1.DataKeys[e.Item.ItemIndex]);which column
//was clicked
//do some stuff here
}
else
{
disks.row.PrimaryKey = new DataColumn[]{disks.row.Columns["DiscId"]};
DataRow row = disks.row.Rows.Find(DataGrid1.DataKeys[e.Item.ItemIndex]);
//do some stuff here
}
}
Hope this would help