GridView.ShowHeader Property (System.Web.UI.WebControls)

ShowHeader Property

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.NET Framework Class Library

GridView..::.ShowHeader Property

Gets or sets a value indicating whether the header row is displayed in a GridView control.

Namespace: System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)

Public Overridable Property ShowHeader As Boolean

Visual Basic (Usage)

Dim instance As GridView
Dim value As Boolean

value = instance.ShowHeader

instance.ShowHeader = value

public virtual bool ShowHeader { get; set; }

Visual C++

public:
virtual property bool ShowHeader {
    bool get ();
    void set (bool value);
}

JScript

public function get ShowHeader () : boolean
public function set ShowHeader (value : boolean)

ASP.NET

<asp:GridView ShowHeader="True|False" />

Property Value

Type: System..::.Boolean
true to display the header row; otherwise, false. The default is true.

Remarks

Use the ShowHeader property to specify whether a GridView control displays the header row. To control the appearance of the header row, use the HeaderStyle property.

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to use the ShowHeader property to display the header row in a GridView control.

Visual Basic

<%@ Page language="VB" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html  >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>GridView ShowHeader and ShowFooter Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">

      <h3>GridView ShowHeader and ShowFooter Example</h3>

      <asp:gridview id="CustomersGridView" 
        datasourceid="CustomersSource" 
        autogeneratecolumns="true"
        emptydatatext="No data available." 
        showheader="true"
        showfooter="true"
        runat="server">

        <headerstyle backcolor="LightCyan"
          forecolor="MediumBlue"/>

        <footerstyle backcolor="LightCyan"
          forecolor="MediumBlue"/>

      </asp:gridview>

      <!-- 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="CustomersSource"
        selectcommand="Select [CustomerID], [CompanyName], [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country] From [Customers]"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>" 
        runat="server"/>

    </form>
  </body>
</html>

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

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html  >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>GridView ShowHeader and ShowFooter Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">

      <h3>GridView ShowHeader and ShowFooter Example</h3>

      <asp:gridview id="CustomersGridView" 
        datasourceid="CustomersSource" 
        autogeneratecolumns="true"
        emptydatatext="No data available." 
        showheader="true"
        showfooter="true"
        runat="server">

        <headerstyle backcolor="LightCyan"
          forecolor="MediumBlue"/>

        <footerstyle backcolor="LightCyan"
          forecolor="MediumBlue"/>

      </asp:gridview>

      <!-- 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="CustomersSource"
        selectcommand="Select [CustomerID], [CompanyName], [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country] From [Customers]"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>" 
        runat="server"/>

    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Reference

GridView Class

GridView Members

System.Web.UI.WebControls Namespace

ShowFooter

HeaderStyle