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DetailsView.AutoGenerateRows Property

.NET Framework 4.5

Gets or sets a value indicating whether row fields for each field in the data source are automatically generated and displayed in a DetailsView control.

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

Syntax

C++

public virtual bool AutoGenerateRows { get; set; }

ASP.NET

<asp:DetailsView AutoGenerateRows="True|False" />

Property Value

Type: System.Boolean
true to display automatically generated bound row fields for each field in the data source; otherwise, false. The default is true.

Remarks

Each data row in the DetailsView control is represented by a row field. When the AutoGenerateRows property is set to true, an automatically generated bound row field is created for each field in the data source. Each field is then displayed in a row as text, in the order in which each field appears in the data source.

Note
Automatically generated bound row fields are not added to the Fields collection.

Automatically generating the rows provides a quick and easy way to display every field in the record. However, to make use of the DetailsView control's advanced capabilities you must explicitly declare the row fields to include in the DetailsView control. For more information, see Fields.

Note
Explicitly declared row fields can be used in combination with automatically generated row fields. When both are used, explicitly declared row fields are rendered first, followed by the automatically generated row fields.

The value of AutoGenerateRows is stored in view state.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to use the AutoGenerateRows property to automatically create bound row fields for each field in the data source.


<%@ 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>DetailsView AutoGenerateRows Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="Form1" runat="server">

      <h3>DetailsView AutoGenerateRows Example</h3>

        <asp:detailsview id="CustomerDetailView"
          datasourceid="DetailsViewSource"
          datakeynames="CustomerID"
          autogeneraterows="true"
          allowpaging="true"  
          runat="server">

          <headerstyle backcolor="Navy"
            forecolor="White"/>

        </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="DetailsViewSource" runat="server" 
          ConnectionString=
            "<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>"
          InsertCommand="INSERT INTO [Customers]([CustomerID], 
            [CompanyName], [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country]) 
            VALUES (@CustomerID, @CompanyName, @Address, @City, 
            @PostalCode, @Country)"
          SelectCommand="Select [CustomerID], [CompanyName], 
            [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country] 
            From [Customers]">
        </asp:SqlDataSource>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Platforms

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

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

Reference

DetailsView Class

System.Web.UI.WebControls Namespace

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