Hi, i would like to know how to disable the adapters specifically.

This is my scenario, most of my gridviews in my application uses the adapter. HOWEVER there are 1 or 2 pages that i would like to use the gridview without the adapters as i want more control of the gridview for each rendered row. Hope u understand what i meant here. THanks.

Just create an empty class that inherits from your GridView, and assign a specific adapter to it. This ensures you that other gridviews still renders as previous.

Hi !

We can't (yet) specifically disable the adapters in a "per control" basis. When you create an adapter for a specific type of controls it will apply to all the controls of that type in your project.

So the idea is to create another type of control that will behave exactly like the original but that will be the one we will use when we want to have a "css enabled" control.

In the last reply of this post there is an example of how to do that for the Menu control (but it works exactly the same way with the gridview control).

http://forums.asp.net/t/1105715.aspx

Let me know if you still don't see what to do.

Hope it helps !
 

hi, i understand what you meant.

but how do i disable the gridview specifically? what do i specify under the <asp:Gridview> tag to use a different adapter? for the browser file, do i add another <adapter ....> tag or do i modify the current one?

 my scenario is to still have the css friendly control adapters.. but i only need to have one or two gridviews in my whole web application to use the original asp renderer.

thanks
 

Hi again.

Well there is the way you should proceed:

First of all, we are going to create a new object that inherits from the GridView:

Create a new class like this:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
    
public class CssGridView : GridView
{
}

Then in the .browser file:

<browser refid="Default">
    <controlAdapters>
      <adapter controltype="CssGridView"
               	    adapterType="CSSFriendly.GridViewAdapter" />
    </adapter>
  </controlAdapters>
</browser>

And from now, when you will use in the aspx pages the tag GridView it will render the original GridView without using the adapters. And when you will use the tag CssGridView it will render a GridView using the CSS Adapter.

Is it clearer now ?  

hi, i've got compilation error?

 <asp:CssGridView> is not a know element? what directive must i add at the top of the page.

thanks 

I'm sorry,I assumed you were familiar with creating user controls.

Let's start from the beggining:

Open your project, then:

File>Add>New Project

From the New Project Wizard choose: "Web Control Library"

Let's call it: "CustomControls"

Add a new "Web Custom Control" Item to this project.

Let's call it: "CSSGridview"

In CSSGridview.cs:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

namespace CustomControls
{
    public class CssGridView : GridView
    {
    }
}

 
Now left click on your Website Project and select: "Add reference..."

In the "Add reference" wizzard select the tab "Project". The project we just added ("CustomControls") should appear in there, select it and click "OK".

Add the following line into your Web.Config file (I indicated also in which section it should be inserted):

<system.web>
   <pages>
     <controls>
           <add TagPrefix="cc" assembly="CustomControls" namespace="CustomControls"></add>
      </controls>
    </pages>
</system.web>

Now you are ready to go, each time you want to use the CSS Adaptered gridview you juste have to write:

<cc:CSSGridView></cc:CSSGridView>

Ah ! And by the way, now that you have two projects in your solution do not forget to always compile the "CustomControls" project first ! (Right click on any one of the projects and select "Project Build Order...") That's because your website uses the dll that will only be generated when you build "CustomControls". If you forget to do it you may have building errors.

Well, that's all. I admit it can seem a little bit complicated but believe me, creating a library of custom controls is a very common task :-) 

hi, i'm using visual web developer. i believe i can't create Web Control Library? any alternatives?

You should still try to create a user control that extends the original gridview.

I must admit I never tried to make web controls other than creating a Web Control Library but I'm sure there is a way to do so.

Right now, you have all the elements to solve your problem you still have to find how to make a user web control using Visual Web Developer. There certainly is a way to do so, bu I don't have the answer myself :(

Sorry, and good luck !
 

Try this:

 Add the following to your control tag.

AdapterEnabled="false"