Populate GridView with DataSet

[rn5a]

I was using a DataView to bind records from a DB table to a DataGrid
using the following code:

Dim sqlDapter As SqlDataAdapter
Dim dSet As DataSet
Dim dView As DataView

sqlDapter = New SqlDataAdapter(strSQL, sqlConn)

dSet = New DataSet()
dView = New DataView

sqlDapter.Fill(dSet, "Users")
dView = dSet.Tables("Users").DefaultView

dgUsers.DataSource = dView
dgUsers.DataBind()

The above works fine but I did like to bind the DataGrid to a GridView
instead of a DataView as the above code shows. What I did is deleted
the DataView from the above code & added a GridView i.e. all the
instances of the DataView were replaced with GridView i.e. changed the
variable name 'dView' to 'gView' but I get this error:

Value of type 'System.Data.DataView' cannot be converted to
'System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView'

pointing to this line

gView = dSet.Tables("Users").DefaultView

How do I populate the GridView with the DataSet?

 

[Brennan Stehling]

Your DataSet and DataView variables stay the same. You will simply set
the DataSource of the GridView to your existing dView variable.

Using what you started with...

sqlDapter.Fill(dSet, "Users")
dView = dSet.Tables("Users").DefaultView

dgUsers.DataSource = dView
dgUsers.DataBind()

Assuming the GridView is named gvUsers, make the last two lines...

gvUsers.DataSource = dView
gvUsers.DataBind()

The DataGrid and GridView both take a DataView as the DataSource.

Brennan Stehling
http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/