Gridview does not display , with or without data 2) how do

Question

Hi all ,

 

could anyone kindly help me with these issues 

 

1) At runtime my gridview  or datalist or formview does not display on the webpage , despite being connected to data via a sqldatasource to an  sqldatabase , all other controls display on the webpage i.e textboxes, labels , what is wrong , ive checked my code and tried , without connection to a datasource  but still get same ! , just displays a blank page

 

2) i am passing an int  variable from one aspx page to be inserted   into a table in the destination page using c# and asp.net ,

 

please how do i go about it  [e-mail]

 

 Regards

 

Chinedu Nwankwo

 

 

Answer 1

Sam,
Thanks for your good help intentions.
I somehow (not sure) managed to restore the files, but I'm not sure what I did.
I simply collected the files I believed should be in the project and made sure they all are in the right folder with the correct namespace, and the most important (i believe) was getting rid of repetitions.
I find the VS (I use Express) to be extremely (dangerously) sensitive to file handling and lacking good automatic file backup (I used to work with Borland Builder where each build saved full backup of previous builds).
I would nevertheless appreciate any good guidelines that will help me prevent such issues in the future.
Sam

Answer 2

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