Programming ASP.NET, 3rd Edition

DetailsView Control: Examining One Record at a Time

Another way to look at your data is one record at a time. ASP.NET offers a control explicitly for this purpose: the DetailsView. This control allows you to edit, delete, and insert records.

The DetailsView control is derived from the BaseDataBoundControl class as is the GridView. As such it shares many of the same properties with GridView. Many of the commonly used properties of the DetailsView control that are not inherited from Control or WebControl are listed in Table 9-8.

Table 9-8. DetailsView properties not inherited from WebControl

Property	Type	Get	Set	Values	Description
AllowPaging	Boolean	x	x	true, false	Specifies if paging is enabled. Default is false.
Alternating-RowStyle	TableItemStyle	x			Derived from the WebControls.Style class, the style properties for the alternate rows.
AutoGenerate-DeleteButton	Boolean	x	x	true, false	If true, a Delete button will be automatically added to each data row. The default is false.
AutoGenerate-EditButton	Boolean	x	x	true, false	If true, an Edit button will be automatically added to each data row. The default is false.
AutoGenerate-InsertButton	Boolean	x	x	true, false	If true, an Insert button will be automatically added to each data row. The default is false.
AutoGenerateRows	Boolean	x	x	true, false	If true, the default, automatically generated data-bound fields will be displayed.
BottomPagerRow	GridViewRow	x			Returns ...