Telerik Grid View in ASP.NET MVC2: Part 1


In this article I will be demonstrating how to populate a Telerik Grid View in ASP.NET MVC2 using Entity Framework 4.

Please go through my artcle - Working with Telerik Controls in ASP.NET - This article will explain all of the prerequisites for working with Telerik controls in APS.NET MVC Projects.

For demonstration here, I will be using here Visual Studio 2010(MVC2.0)

1. Create a new ASP.NET MVC2 Web application - name it as MVCTelerikGridViewDemo

TlrkASPNET1.gif

2. For this sample application - Let's not create the unit test project.- So select the radio button - No, Do not create a unit Test Project.

3. Now we have the readymade/default ASP.Net MVC2 Project template with few files already existing in each of the folders Model , View and Controller.

4. For this Demo - We will be placing the Telerik Grid View in existing default View ( Views ->Home->Index.aspx)
This View is called from HomeController.cs(Controller -> HomeController.cs)

5. Create ViewModel

  • ViewModel can be thought as a Model - which is responsible to supply information to a View.
  • ViewModels helps us to create Strongly Typed Views.
  • Right Click solution explorer -> MVCTelerikGridViewDemo -> Add -> New Folder(ViewModel) = This folder can be used for placing all the ViewModel classes of the entire project.
  • Right Click ViewModels -> Add Class -> IndexTelerikGridViewModel.cs

    TlrkASPNET2.gif
     
  • Open IndexTelerikGridViewModel.cs -Include automatic properties representing each of the columns of the GridView.

Code - IndexTelerikGridViewModel.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace MVCTelerikGridViewDemo.ViewModel
{
    public class IndexTelerikGridViewModel
    {
        public int iArticleID { get; set; }
        [Required]
        public String sTitle { get; set; }
        [Required]
        public string sSection { get; set; }
        [Required]
        public int iViews { get; set; }
        [Required]
        public int iDownloads { get; set; }
        [Required]
        public string sStatus { get; set; }

    }
}

6. Database Part

  • We will create a sample SQL Server database - create a table and insert some sample data which would be reflected in our Telerik GridView.

  • For this sample app - Let us create table by

    1. Right Click the App_Data folder -> Add -> New Item -> Select SQL Server database and give it some name- TestDatabase.mdf - Click Add.
    2. Double Click TestDatabase.mdf to open the Server Explorer.
    3. Right Click Table - Add New Table -
    - ArticleID- Primary Key(set to autoincrement by 1)

    TlrkASPNET3.gif

    4. Save- (CTRL+S) -> Give Table Name -> MyArticles
    5. Insert Sample Data - Right-click the tblState table and select option Show Table Data- and you can enter sample data.

7. Setting up the Models

  1. Adding Entity Framework classes
     

    • Entity Framework is an ORM(object relational mapper) that ships as part of .Net 4
    • From the Solution explorer -> Go to Models folder -> Right Click Models -> Add New Item -> Select ADO.Net Entity Data Model -> Name it -> TestDataBaseModel.edmx -> Click Add -
    • Below Screenshots depicts the stepwise creation of Entity Framework Class.


      TlrkASPNET4.gif

      TlrkASPNET5.gif

      TlrkASPNET6.gif

      TlrkASPNET7.gif
       
    • With the Click on Finish - Our Entity Data Model is created.

      TlrkASPNET8.gif
       
  2. Creating a Repository Class
     

    • This approach using a Repository class helps encapsulate data querying and persistence logic.
    • In the Repository Class - We can specify all the Querying methods required in our application
    • Right Click Models-Add Class - DataRepository.cs

      TlrkASPNET9.gif
       
    • Open DataRepository.cs
    • Add the following using Statement

    • using System.Web.Mvc;
      using MVCTelerikGridViewDemo.ViewModel;
       
    • Create the object of TestDatabaseEntities
    • Include a function which would fetch the records to be displayed in Telerik Grid View

      Code-DataRepository.cs

      using System;
      using System.Collections.Generic;
      using System.Linq;
      using System.Web;
      using System.Web.Mvc;
      using MVCTelerikGridViewDemo.ViewModel;

      namespace MVCTelerikGridViewDemo.Models
      {
          public class DataRepository
          {
              //Create an instance of TestDatabaseEntities
              public TestDatabaseEntities entities = new TestDatabaseEntities(); 
              //Fetching Records from database to be displayed in Telerik Grid
              public IEnumerable<IndexTelerikGridViewModel> MyArticles_DisplayRecords()
              {
                  try
                  {
                      var records = from MyArticle in entities.MyArticles
                                    select new IndexTelerikGridViewModel
                                    {
                                        iArticleID=MyArticle.ArticleID,
                                        sTitle=MyArticle.Title,
                                        sSection=MyArticle.Section,
                                        iViews=MyArticle.Views,
                                        iDownloads=MyArticle.Downloads,
                                        sStatus=MyArticle.Status
                                    };
                      return records;
                  }
                  catch (Exception ex)
                  {
                      return null;
                  }
              }

          }
      }

8. Now you need to perform all the steps which I have mentioned as prerequisites before including a Telerik Control in your Views - Working with Telerik Controls in ASP.NET 

9. Views

Open Index.aspx (default View already existing in Views->Home folder)

• We can strongly type this View to our ViewModel class we created by updating the Page directive as below-

<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<IEnumerable<MVCTelerikGridViewDemo.ViewModel.IndexTelerikGridViewModel>>" %>

  • Include Telerik Grid View in Index.aspx

<%=
 
        Html.Telerik().Grid(Model)
                .Name("tgvArticle")
                    .DataKeys(keys=>keys.Add(c=>c.iArticleID))
                        .Columns(columns=>
                            {
                              
                                columns.Bound(p=>p.sTitle).Title("Title");
                                columns.Bound(p=>p.sSection).Title("Section");
                                columns.Bound(p=>p.iViews).Title("Views");
                                columns.Bound(p=>p.iDownloads).Title("Downloads");
                                columns.Bound(p=>p.sStatus).Title("Status");
                            }).Pageable()
                                .Sortable()
                                    .Filterable()

        %>

10. Controller

  • Our View Index.aspx is called from HomeController.cs (Controller -> HomeController.cs)

  • Open HomeController.cs

  • Add the following using statement

    using MVCTelerikGridViewDemo.Models;
    using MVCTelerikGridViewDemo.ViewModel;

     

  • Create an instance of Repository Class which we created in Model.

    DataRepository objRepository = new DataRepository();
     

  • Update the ActionResult Index to pass the fetched records to be displayed in the View - Index.aspx

    public ActionResult Index()
            {
                ViewData["Message"] = "Telerik Grid View Demo!!!";
                return View(objRepository.MyArticles_DisplayRecords());
            }

     

  • Code HomeController.cs

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Web;
    using System.Web.Mvc;
    using MVCTelerikGridViewDemo.Models;
    using MVCTelerikGridViewDemo.ViewModel;

    namespace MVCTelerikGridViewDemo.Controllers
    {
        [HandleError]
        public class HomeController : Controller
        {
            DataRepository objRepository = new DataRepository();

            public ActionResult Index()
            {
                ViewData["Message"] = "Telerik Grid View Demo!!!";
                return View(objRepository.MyArticles_DisplayRecords());
            }
        }
    }


11. Output - Run the application

Telerik Grid View would be displayed on the page as -

TlrkASPNET10.gif

Since we have mentioned out Telerik Grid View as Pageable,Sotable and Filterable in code (refer Telerik Grid View Code added in the View)- So all these functionality come with this Grid.

Example - Records can be filtered based on column values

TlrkASPNET11.gif

I will come soon with Part 2 of Telerik Grid View - with the Insert,Update and Delete Operations

Happy Learning!!

 

Up Next
    Ebook Download
    View all
    Learn
    View all