[HeaveNDenieD]

good day guys, i would like to write a certain program that will help me search files in a database. I do not know what is the name of the container where the output should be placed. Is it richtextbox? I want it to be like a normal search engine like google but instead it will display all of files that have the same keywords. thanks

[modi123_1]

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I do not know what is the name of the container where the output should be placed.

I am a big fan of data grids.

[HeaveNDenieD]

modi123_1, on 11 February 2013 - 11:11 PM, said:

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I do not know what is the name of the container where the output should be placed.

I am a big fan of data grids.

are there any limits for data grids? like they can't hold any image. or how about if the data is too many? will it automatically be on page 2?

[modi123_1]

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are there any limits for data grids?

There are limits to everything. You should read up on them at MSDN.

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like they can't hold any image.

Yes they can hold images.

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or how about if the data is too many?

Again, yes, there are limits to the machine and the collection.

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will it automatically be on page 2?

You can easily write up a paging function if you are concerned.

[tycos]

Simple example of a Datalist with paging:

This is the Datalist that displays some news items, it has some buttons under it to navigate through pages:

<asp:DataList ID="Rep_news" runat="server" CssClass="NewsTable" Width="100%">
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <hr />
                    <h2>
                        <%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Headline")%>
                        <div class="date_card">
                            <span class="month">
                                <%# App.format_date(Container.DataItem("dateposted"), "month")%>
                            </span><span class="day">
                                <%# App.format_date(Container.DataItem("dateposted"), "day")%>
                            </span><span class="year">
                                <%# App.format_date(Container.DataItem("dateposted"), "year")%>
                            </span>
                        </div>
                    </h2>
                    <div class="clearboth">
                    </div>
                    <p>
                        <%# Container.DataItem("content")%>
                    </p>
                </ItemTemplate>
            </asp:DataList>

 <asp:LinkButton ID="btnPrev" onclick="btnPrev_Click" runat="server" Text="< PREVIOUS" CssClass="button" Width="104px"></asp:LinkButton>
                <asp:LinkButton ID="btnNext" onclick="btnNext_Click" runat="server" Text="NEXT >" CssClass="button" Width="104px"></asp:LinkButton>

Set your paged Data source, I am returning a DataView in the example
pagedData.DataSource = your_sql_lookup(find files by params) as dataview

Set how many items to view per page
pagedData.PageSize = 3

get page number from url, put in a try catch so if its blank will be set to 0

Clicking the buttons reloads the page and adds and minus 1 from the current page

  Dim pagedData As New PagedDataSource 'Used to page news

  Sub loadnews()
        Try
            pagedData.DataSource = App.news("dataview", "news")

            Try
                pagedData.CurrentPageIndex = Int32.Parse(Request.QueryString("Page")).ToString()
            Catch ex As Exception
                pagedData.CurrentPageIndex = 0
            End Try

            pagedData.AllowPaging = True
            pagedData.PageSize = 3

            btnPrev.Enabled = (Not pagedData.IsFirstPage)
            btnNext.Enabled = (Not pagedData.IsLastPage)
            pageNumber.Text = "Page " & (pagedData.CurrentPageIndex + 1) & " of " & pagedData.PageCount
            Rep_news.DataSource = pagedData
            Rep_news.DataBind()
        Catch ex As Exception

        End Try
    End Sub

    Protected Sub btnPrev_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnPrev.Click
        'Go to previous News page
        Response.Redirect("news.aspx?Page=" & (pagedData.CurrentPageIndex - 1))
    End Sub

    Protected Sub btnNext_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnNext.Click
        'Go to next News page
        Response.Redirect("news.aspx?Page=" & (pagedData.CurrentPageIndex + 1))
    End Sub

[HeaveNDenieD]

by the way i am using form.vb a simple app not a web page )