Welcome to Gridview Hell

[C. David Johnson]

Ok I am working on the simplest thing ever that is turning in to the
biggest train wreck ever.

I have a database with a series of photo albums and the image path &
name for each image. I pass the info to the gridview via the Query
string. The thumbnails load with no problems as long as I use the
ASP:Images control

I tried to use the imagebutton but I could not dynamically set the
image property

My problem comes when I want to run a process when the user clicks on
the image in the gridview.

When the image is clicked I need to make a trip to the DB to get the
detail for the image and load the non thumbnail image., Caption and
story behind the image…


In 2003 I was able to reference invisible items in the grid. Did they
change that in 2005 or am I smoking crack and not sharing again.

For every image I have an ID, ImageName , Caption and Story. Now I
just need to be able to make a call by what ever means necessary to
pull the data back and populate the detail portion of the page,

Any Ideas?

 

[Teemu Keiski]

Hi,

invisible item's data isn't kept in ViewState in 2005 as it was in previous
versions, yes. If you want a field/fields to be non-visible and use it, set
it/them into DataKeyNames ( DataKeyNames="field1,field2,fieldN" and so on )
when they become available via data keys (or bind the data into hidden
Labels and access them, being hidden concerns only field objects )