ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Adding and Modifying Parameters

You can handle the Selecting, Inserting, Updating, and Deleting events to modify the parameters that are passed to the methods called by the ObjectDataSource control. There are several situations in which you might want to do this.

First, if you work with an existing component, you might need to change the names of the parameters passed to the component. For example, instead of passing a parameter named id to an update method, you might want to rename the parameter to movieId.

Second, you might want to pass additional parameters to the method called. For example, you might need to pass the current username, the current IP address, or the current date and time as a parameter to a method.

For example, imagine that ...