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ButtonColumn::ButtonType Property

Gets or sets the type of button to display in the ButtonColumn object.

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

public:
virtual property ButtonColumnType ButtonType {
	ButtonColumnType get ();
	void set (ButtonColumnType value);
}

Property Value

Type: System.Web.UI.WebControls::ButtonColumnType
One of the ButtonColumnType values. The default is LinkButton.

ExceptionCondition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException

The specified column type is not one of the ButtonColumnType values.

Use the ButtonType property to specify whether the buttons in the ButtonColumn object are displayed as link or push buttons. The following table lists the possible settings.

Button type

Display

LinkButton

A link.

PushButton

A button control.

Clicking the buttons in the ButtonColumn raises the ItemCommand event. You can programmatically control the action that is performed when the button is clicked by providing an event handler for the ItemCommand event.

The value of this property is stored in view state.

The following code example demonstrates how use the ButtonType property to specify that the buttons in the ButtonColumn object are displayed as push buttons.

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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.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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