[Xna4life]

Im a beginner at this asp.net dynamic data and have just been completing a few tutorials on youtube etc...

I was hoping maybe now to create a datagrid, (1) which binds labels to fields (exmaple) <asp:label runat=”server” ID=”abc” Text=’<%# Bind(“fieldname”) %>’>

(2) Also, where one of the columns had a hyperlink, which would bind to an external URL...so something instead of <asp:HyperLink ID="ChangePassword" runat="server" NavigateUrl="http://www.google.com" Target="_blank">Visit Google</asp:HyperLink>

I could have NavigateUrl=’http://bbcnews/<%# Bind(“id”) %>'which would then produce bbcnews/23, bbcnews/24, bbcnews/25 etc...

Could someone please point me in the right direction of where I can get a tutorial on this. Theres plenty of tutorials out there but I can't seem to find any relating to what I want to do.

Thanks

[Xna4life]

SO i've created a datagrid and linked it to one of my tables from my db. I then want to add a hyperlink which should bind to a column from the table

 <asp:DataGrid ID="DataGrid1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1">
        </asp:DataGrid>
        <asp:SqlDataSource ID="SqlDataSource1" runat="server" 
            ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:holidaysConnectionString %>" 
            SelectCommand="SELECT [Name], [External_Link] FROM [Person]">
        </asp:SqlDataSource>
        <asp:HyperLink ID="hyperlink" runat="server" NavigateUrl='http://www.google.com/<%# Bind("External_Link")%>' Target="_blank">Visit Google</asp:HyperLink>

This isn't working can someone advise what I am doing wrong? I have 2 columns in my table, Name and External_Hyperlink, each row (inside the external_hyerplink column) contains the extension to a url so depending on which row was clicked i would get www.google.com/extension1, or www.google.com/extension2 etc.... but dont think I am anywhere near this, please help.

Thanks

This post has been edited by Xna4life: 10 January 2013 - 12:33 PM

[modi123_1]

Let's not open duplicate topics, m'kay?

[Xna4life]

modi123_1, on 10 January 2013 - 12:30 PM, said:

Let's not open duplicate topics, m'kay?

Thank you for the help Sir, much appreciated

[_HAWK_]

If your wanting that custom binding in the datagrid you create a TemplateColumn - which means setting AutoGenerateColumns to false and making BoundColumns for simple binding.

<asp:TemplateColumn HeaderText="Dose">
  <ItemTemplate >
    <asp:HyperLink ID="hyperlink" runat="server" NavigateUrl='http://www.google.com/<%# Bind("External_Link")%>' Target="_blank">Visit Google</asp:HyperLink>
  </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateColumn>