Move Textbox Values to GridView in ASP.Net

Nilesh Jadav
Aug 11, 2015
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This article shows how to move textbox values to a GridView at run time using ASP.NET C#.

We are using two Textboxes, a button and a GridView, so when we fill the Textbox and hit the button the values are saved in the GridView.

Initial chamber

Step 1

Open your Visual Studio 2010 and create an empty website. Name it gridview_demo.

Step 2

In Solution Explorer you will see your empty website, add a web form and a SQL Server database as in the following.

For Web Form:

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

For SQL Server Database

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

DATABASE CHAMBER

Step 3

Go to your database (Database.mdf) and create a table tbl_Data. Go to the database.mdf, then Table and Add New table. Design your table like the following:

Table tbl_data (don't forget to make ID as IS Identity -- True)

table

Design chamber

Step 4

Open your gridview_demo.aspx file, where we create our design.

Gridview_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>
<style type="text/css">
.style1
{
width: 550px;
}
.style2
{
font-size: large;
text-decoration: underline;
color: #990000;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div class="style2">
<strong>Move Data of Textbox to Gridview</strong></div>
<table style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td>
Name:</td>
<td class="style1">
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox3" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
City:</td>
<td class="style1">
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox4" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
<td class="style1">
<asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton1" runat="server" onclick="LinkButton1_Click">Save to Gridview</asp:LinkButton>
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False"
DataKeyNames="id" BackColor="LightGoldenrodYellow" BorderColor="Tan"
BorderWidth="1px" CellPadding="2" ForeColor="Black" GridLines="None">
<AlternatingRowStyle BackColor="PaleGoldenrod" />
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Name">
<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("name") %>'></asp:TextBox>
</EditItemTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("name") %>'></asp:Label>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="City">
<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("city") %>'></asp:TextBox>
</EditItemTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("city") %>'></asp:Label>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
<FooterStyle BackColor="Tan" />
<HeaderStyle BackColor="Tan" Font-Bold="True" />
<PagerStyle BackColor="PaleGoldenrod" ForeColor="DarkSlateBlue"
HorizontalAlign="Center" />
<SelectedRowStyle BackColor="DarkSlateBlue" ForeColor="GhostWhite" />
<SortedAscendingCellStyle BackColor="#FAFAE7" />
<SortedAscendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#DAC09E" />
<SortedDescendingCellStyle BackColor="#E1DB9C" />
<SortedDescendingHeaderStyle BackColor="#C2A47B" />
</asp:GridView>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Your design will look like the following:

design

Code chamber

Step 6

Open gridview_demo.aspx.cs and write some code so that our application works.

Gridview_demo.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();
}
protected void LinkButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\Database.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True");
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("sp_insert", con);
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("name", TextBox3.Text);
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("city", TextBox4.Text);
con.Open();
int i = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
con.Close();
refreshdata();
}
}