GridView Sorting in ASP.Net Using C#

Nilesh Jadav
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We will use one GridView and its sorting event, then we write some code in that event for making name ascending and descending.

Initial chamber

Step 1

Open your Visual Studio 2010 and create an Empty Website, provide a suitable name (gridviewsorting_demo).

Step 2

In Solution Explorer you get your empty website, then add two web forms and a SQL Server Database as in the following.

For Web Form:

Autocomplete_demo (your empty website) then right-click then select Add New Item -> Web Form. Name it gridviewsorting_demo.aspx.

For SQL Server Database

gridviewsorting_demo (your empty website) then right-click then select Add New Item -> SQL Server Database. (Add a database inside the App_Data_folder).

DATABASE CHAMBER

Step 3

In Server Explorer, click on your database (Database.mdf) then select Tables -> Add New Table. Make the table like this.

Table tbl_data (Don't Forget to make ID as IS Identity -- True)

table design

Design chamber

Step 4

Now open your gridviewsorting_demo.aspx file, where we create our design for GridView sorting.

Gridviewsorting_demo.aspx

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
<table style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
<td>
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AllowSorting="True"
AutoGenerateColumns="False" BackColor="White" BorderColor="#999999"
BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="1px" CellPadding="3" DataKeyNames="id"
ForeColor="Black" GridLines="Vertical" onsorting="GridView1_Sorting">
<AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="#CCCCCC" />
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Id" SortExpression="id">
<%--<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("id") %>'></asp:TextBox>
</EditItemTemplate>--%>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("id") %>'></asp:Label>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="First Name" SortExpression="fname">
<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("fname") %>'></asp:TextBox>
</EditItemTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("fname") %>'></asp:Label>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Last Name" SortExpression="lname">
<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox3" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("lname") %>'></asp:TextBox>
</EditItemTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="Label3" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("lname") %>'></asp:Label>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="City" SortExpression="city">
<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox4" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("city") %>'></asp:TextBox>
</EditItemTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="Label4" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("city") %>'></asp:Label>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
<FooterStyle BackColor="#CCCCCC" />
<HeaderStyle BackColor="Black" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
<PagerStyle BackColor="#999999" ForeColor="Black" HorizontalAlign="Center" />
<SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#000099" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
<SortedAscendingCellStyle BackColor="#F1F1F1" />
<SortedAscendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#808080" />
<SortedDescendingCellStyle BackColor="#CAC9C9" />
<SortedDescendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#383838" />
</asp:GridView>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Now for those of who are using the Template Field here, you need to embed a single thing into the code, a Sort Expression, whatever the field is for (like if it is the firstname, then write like sort expression=”firstname”). The following code displays it.

code

Your design looks like the following:

Code chamber

Step 5

Open your gridviewsorting_demo.aspx.cs and write some code for the application to make it work.

gridviewsorting_demo.aspx.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!Page.IsPostBack)
{
refreshdata();
}
}
public void refreshdata()
{
SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\Database.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True");
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select * from tbl_data", con);
SqlDataAdapter sda = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
sda.Fill(dt);
GridView1.DataSource = dt;
GridView1.DataBind();
ViewState["dirState"] = dt;
ViewState["sortdr"] = "Asc";
}
protected void GridView1_Sorting(object sender, GridViewSortEventArgs e)
{
DataTable dtrslt= (DataTable)ViewState["dirState"];
if (dtrslt.Rows.Count > 0)
{
if (Convert.ToString(ViewState["sortdr"]) == "Asc")
{
dtrslt.DefaultView.Sort = e.SortExpression + " Desc";
ViewState["sortdr"] = "Desc";
}
else
{
dtrslt.DefaultView.Sort = e.SortExpression + " Asc";
ViewState["sortdr"] = "Asc";
}
GridView1.DataSource = dtrslt;
GridView1.DataBind();
}
}
}

Output chamber
Output

I hope you liked this. Thank you for reading. Have a good day.

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