Using TemplateFields in the GridView Control: Step 1-Binding the Data to the GridView

This VIDEO TUTORIAL will layout the framework for upcoming steps in demonstrating additional degree of customization in displaying more than one field in a single column of GridView display. The objective of this video tutorial is to list a particular employee’s last and first name in one column, employee hire date in a calendar control and the total number of employed days for that particular employee in a GridView display at run time on the GridViewTemplateField.aspx web page. The data information is obtained from EmployeesBLL object for configuring the ObjectDataSource that will be bound to a GridView on the web page. A demonstration of the preceding web page with employee information in bound fields at run time will conclude this step. For detailed information and source code for this step, please refer to the original article.