Making ASP.NET GridView Responsive With jQuery FooTable

As the current trend is to make website compatible with all platforms like desktop, tablet and mobile..etc, Responsive Design technique comes into the picture. Using it, the website adapts the layout to the environment that it is being viewed in. In this post, we will make ASP.NET gridview responsive using jQuery FooTable plugin. It hides certain columns of data at different resolutions based on data-* attributes and converts hidden data to expandable rows.

ASP.NET GridView And RepeatColumns(Rows in Multiple Columns) With jQuery

By Default, There is no RepeatColumns property in ASP.NET Gridview to display rows in multiple columns as in DataList control. When Gridview has few columns, It doesn’t take full space of browser. To make good UI, You might need RepeatColumns property. This post explains how to display asp.net GridView rows in multiple columns using jQuery WITHOUT modifying any existing code.

Anonymous Type LINQ Result and GridView Sorting in ASP.NET

It explains how to implement asp.net gridview sorting functionality when gridview datasource is Anonymous Type. Suppose you are using Entity Framework OR LINQ to sql, getting data with a particular structure having different columns from different tables (Anonymous Type) using LINQ and you have defined it as a datasource of gridview. It’s okay to display data. Now, you have to implement sorting feature. One way is to convert Anonymous Type to Datatable and sort it defaultview, but it’s too complex. You might have tasted dynamic sorting with extension method as mentioned here and here but not useful for Anonymous type. Another way is to use switch case for sortexpression and use OrderBy and OrderByDescending for each column. It’s not a generalize solution. then what….???

Insert, Update, Delete in ASP.NET Gridview With Entity Framework

This article explains how to perform insert, update and delete operations in ASP.NET GridView with Entity Framework. Let us take an example to perform CRUD operations using Entity Framework Database First approach. Suppose we’ve to work on Customer table having CategoryID as foreign key.

Displaying Total in ASP.NET Gridview Footer Row Without using Template Field

There are tons of articles to display total in asp.net gridview footer row. The common approach to implement this is:
1. Create template field of the column which is to be totalled.
2. Define FooterTemplate and add Label control.
3. Take a variable and add value of each row in GridView1_RowDataBound event.
4. Find label control in footer and assign the variable.
It’s too complex. Let’s see how to take advantage of LINQ or Lambda expression and skip these steps.