CommandField.NewText Property

Definition

Gets or sets the caption for the New button in a CommandField field.

public:
 virtual property System::String ^ NewText { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };
public virtual string NewText { get; set; }
member this.NewText : string with get, set
Public Overridable Property NewText As String

Property Value

The caption for the New button in a CommandField field. The default is "New".

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to use the NewText property to specify a custom caption for the New button displayed in a CommandField field of a DetailsView control.


<%@ Page language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>CommandField Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
      
      <h3>CommandField Example</h3>

      <asp:detailsview id="CustomersGridView" 
        datasourceid="CustomersSqlDataSource" 
        autogeneraterows="false"
        datakeynames="CustomerID"  
        allowpaging="true" 
        runat="server">
        
        <fields>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="CustomerID"
            headertext="Customer ID" />
          <asp:boundfield datafield="CompanyName"
            headertext="CompanyName"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="Address"
            headertext="Address"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="City"
            headertext="City"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="PostalCode"
            headertext="ZIP Code"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="Country"
            headertext="Country"/>
          <asp:commandfield showinsertbutton="true"
            inserttext="Save"
            newtext="Add New Customer" 
            showheader="true"
            headertext="Add Customer"/>
        </fields>
        
      </asp:detailsview>
            
      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects  -->
      <!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET     -->
      <!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value   -->
      <!-- from the Web.config file.                            -->
      <asp:sqldatasource id="CustomersSqlDataSource"  
        selectcommand="Select [CustomerID], [CompanyName], [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country] From [Customers]"
        insertcommand="Insert Into [Customers]([CustomerID], [CompanyName], [City], [PostalCode], [Country]) Values (@CustomerID, @CompanyName, @City, @PostalCode, @Country)"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>"
        runat="server">
      </asp:sqldatasource>
            
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

<%@ Page language="VB" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>CommandField Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
      
      <h3>CommandField Example</h3>

      <asp:detailsview id="CustomersGridView" 
        datasourceid="CustomersSqlDataSource" 
        autogeneraterows="false"
        datakeynames="CustomerID"  
        allowpaging="true" 
        runat="server">
        
        <fields>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="CustomerID"
            headertext="Customer ID" />
          <asp:boundfield datafield="CompanyName"
            headertext="CompanyName"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="Address"
            headertext="Address"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="City"
            headertext="City"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="PostalCode"
            headertext="ZIP Code"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="Country"
            headertext="Country"/>
          <asp:commandfield showinsertbutton="true"
            inserttext="Save"
            newtext="Add New Customer" 
            showheader="true"
            headertext="Add Customer"/>
        </fields>
        
      </asp:detailsview>
            
      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects  -->
      <!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET     -->
      <!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value   -->
      <!-- from the Web.config file.                            -->
      <asp:sqldatasource id="CustomersSqlDataSource"  
        selectcommand="Select [CustomerID], [CompanyName], [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country] From [Customers]"
        insertcommand="Insert Into [Customers]([CustomerID], [CompanyName], [City], [PostalCode], [Country]) Values (@CustomerID, @CompanyName, @City, @PostalCode, @Country)"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>"
        runat="server">
      </asp:sqldatasource>
            
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Remarks

When the ButtonType property of a CommandField object is set to ButtonType.Button or ButtonType.Link, use the NewText property to specify the text to display for the New button.

Note

As an alternative to displaying text for the New button, you can display an image by first setting the ButtonType property to ButtonType.Image and then setting the NewImageUrl property.

The value of this property, when set, can be saved automatically to a resource file by using a designer tool. For more information, see LocalizableAttribute and Globalization and Localization.

Applies to

See also