ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Using Button Fields

You use a ButtonField to display a button in a GridView. You can use ButtonField to represent a custom command or one of the standard edit commands.

For example, GridView in Listing 11.21 contains two ButtonFields that a user can click to change the display order of the movie category records (see Figure 11.16).

Figure 11.16. Using ButtonFields with the GridView control.

Listing 11.21. ShowButtonField.aspx

When you click ...