datagrid

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Hello I have a xml-document and i place it in a datagrid with a dataset. One column is named loadorder. When i load the xml-document into the datagrid the column looks like this 132658 and when i press the column (the header) he arranges them nicely 123568. But when i save the dataset (dataset.WriteXml(filepath)) and load it again nothing has changed it's back to 132658. How can i save this? thx in advance

finger_bobs · Answer

Hi I'm really new to c# (only three weeks) so I can't tell you how to solve your problem. However I would imagine that by clicking the column header the control simply refreshers the sort order visually It does not retain any record of this sort order. It makes sense really because if your application users were to re-sort the records by clicking the column headers and this new order was saved to a database or larger flatfile documents they could screw up your indexes or even de-stablise your application (depending upon the methods used to access and relate distributed data). That said the guy who wrote this article seems clued up xml schemas and datagrid controls. You can reply to his article and see if he can help you. Sorting XML Data using the .NET DataGrid ---- http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/xmldatagrid.asp Good luck!!