Hide Columns in GridView?

[Phil Sandler]

Quick question:

Is it possible to use autogeneratecolumns = true and still hide
specific columns based on the column name in the datasource?

Failing that, can it be done by column index?


Thanks,

Phil

 

[Guest]

Hi Phil,

Yes you can, but it's quite *nasty* - you end up with accessing Controls
collection (as you may know, autogenerated fields are not added to the
Columns collection, they are kept in private variable _autoGenFieldProps -
see it for yourself in quick watch window while debuging), Anyway, here's the
mentioned solution:

foreach (TableRow row in list.Controls[0].Controls)
{
row.Cells[IndexOfTheColumnToHide].Visible = false;
}

You can still do it properly, adding columns programatically based on the
datasource (i know it would require a little bit more codding).

Hope this helps

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Just note that you can catch autogenerated columns in the grid's ItemCreated
event.