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ASPxGrid Interactive Lessons

• Lesson 1: Data Binding, Logic for Update and Delete Operations (442k).Text

  

  
  Lesson 1: Data Binding, Logic for Update and Delete Operations (442k).Text

  

  

  This lesson guides you through the basic setup and customization of the ASPxGrid. It shows you how to create a grid control and bind it to an MDB table allowing the grid columns to be auto-generated. Additionally, it demonstrates the basic logic which is implemented to handle updates, deletes and inserts of the grid rows. Note: that many of the steps in this lesson are required to create the grid control's data source. If you already have one created, only a couple of clicks is required to display its data using the ASPxGrid.

• Lesson 2: Column Customization, Inplace Editor for a Column (332k).Text

  

  
  Lesson 2: Column Customization, Inplace Editor for a Column (332k).Text

  

  

  This lesson will guide you through the basics of customizing columns - such as retrieving columns, accessing and managing the columns collection at design time. It also shows how to format the values of specific grid columns for display purposes. Additionally, it demonstrates the use of an editor from the ASPxDataControls Library for a column's inplace editing and shows how the editor's specific settings can be easily customized.

• Lesson 3: Preview Sections, Group and Total Summaries, RowBtnColumn (248k).Text

  

  
  Lesson 3: Preview Sections, Group and Total Summaries, RowBtnColumn (248k).Text

  

  

  In this lesson you will learn how to display preview sections within the grid control, how to create and customize group and total summaries, how to add a column of the RowBtnColumn type to the grid and change the column's default buttons and adjustment.

• Lesson 4: Creating an Auto-Calculated Column (330k).Text

  

  
  Lesson 4: Creating an Auto-Calculated Column (330k).Text

  

  

  In this lesson you will learn how to create a column whose values will be calculated automatically on the client side based upon the values of other grid columns. This column will contain a total summary which is calculated dynamically on the client and will allow any client sorting operation to be performed against its displayed values. So in addition to the steps of creating and customizing a column and its summary item this lesson demonstrates how to handle specific client-side events of a column and the grid control.

• Lesson 5: Look and Feel Customization (357k).Text

  

  
  Lesson 5: Look and Feel Customization (357k).Text

  

  

  This lesson demonstrates the basics of customizing the grid's style. You will learn how to apply a predefined style scheme to a grid, how to customize a primitive look and feel element's style and how to access and modify the individual item styles of a grid control and a column.

• Lesson 6: Implementing Templates (526k).Text

  

  
  Lesson 6: Implementing Templates (526k).Text

  

  

  This lesson will teach you how to create a server-side template for a column's edited cell and implement client-side support for the template. The template will be defined using a web user control which will contain two editors from the ASPxDataControls Library. You will find out which client-side events should be handled in order to support the template's child controls in full on the client side for the purposes of editing.