Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET

Creating Templates Dynamically

Typically, the layout code of templated columns is defined at design time, but you might face situations in which using predefined templates is not the optimal solution and you need a dynamic template. For example, if you know in advance that a lot of changes must be applied at run time via events such as ItemCreated and ItemDataBound, there is no reason to define a static template, forcing the control to support a double effort: processing the template first and the changes next. Also, when users can change among different views of the same data, a dynamic template is preferable. Whatever your reason for adding templated columns dynamically, you face the problem of how to create a template programmatically. In ...