GridView.SortDirection Property
.NET Framework 4.5
Gets the sort direction of the column being sorted.
Namespace: System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
[BrowsableAttribute(false)] [PersistenceModeAttribute(PersistenceMode.InnerProperty)] public virtual SortDirection SortDirection { get; }
Property Value
Type: System.Web.UI.WebControls.SortDirectionOne of the SortDirection values. The default is SortDirection.Ascending.
NoteThe following example demonstrates how to use the SortDirection property to programmatically determine the sort direction of a GridView control.
<%@ Page language="C#" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <script runat="server"> void CustomersGridView_DataBound(Object sender, EventArgs e) { // Get the header row. GridViewRow headerRow = CustomersGridView.HeaderRow; // Get the footer row. GridViewRow footerRow = CustomersGridView.FooterRow; // Set the font color of the header and footer rows // based on the sort direction. switch (CustomersGridView.SortDirection) { case SortDirection.Ascending: headerRow.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green; footerRow.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green; break; case SortDirection.Descending: headerRow.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red; footerRow.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red; break; default: headerRow.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black; footerRow.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Black; break; } // Display the sort order in the footer row. footerRow.Cells[0].Text = "Sort Order = " + CustomersGridView.SortDirection.ToString(); } </script> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head runat="server"> <title>GridView HeaderRow and FooterRow Example</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <h3>GridView HeaderRow and FooterRow Example</h3> <asp:gridview id="CustomersGridView" datasourceid="CustomersSource" autogeneratecolumns="true" emptydatatext="No data available." allowsorting="true" allowpaging="true" showheader="true" showfooter="true" ondatabound="CustomersGridView_DataBound" 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>
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)
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