Welcome to Gridview Hell

27 Apr 2006 4:40 AM

C. David Johnson

Ok I am working on the simplest thing ever that is turning in to the
biggest train wreck ever.

I have a database with a series of photo albums and the image path &
name for each image. I pass the info to the gridview via the Query
string. The thumbnails load with no problems as long as I use the
ASP:Images control

I tried to use the imagebutton but I could not dynamically set the
image property

My problem comes when I want to run a process when the user clicks on
the image in the gridview.

When the image is clicked I need to make a trip to the DB to get the
detail for the image and load the non thumbnail image., Caption and
story behind the image…

In 2003 I was able to reference invisible items in the grid. Did they
change that in 2005 or am I smoking crack and not sharing again.

For every image I have an ID, ImageName , Caption and Story. Now I
just need to be able to make a call by what ever means necessary to
pull the data back and populate the detail portion of the page,

Any Ideas?

28 Apr 2006 8:56 PM

clickon

THe image property in an ImageButton control is called ImageUrl and is a
string that represents the value src atribute of the resulting <input
type="image> tag. you can set this programatically.

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"C. David Johnson" wrote:

> Ok I am working on the simplest thing ever that is turning in to the
> biggest train wreck ever.
>
> I have a database with a series of photo albums and the image path &
> name for each image. I pass the info to the gridview via the Query
> string. The thumbnails load with no problems as long as I use the
> ASP:Images control
>
> I tried to use the imagebutton but I could not dynamically set the
> image property
>
> My problem comes when I want to run a process when the user clicks on
> the image in the gridview.
>
> When the image is clicked I need to make a trip to the DB to get the
> detail for the image and load the non thumbnail image., Caption and
> story behind the imageâ€¦
>
>
> In 2003 I was able to reference invisible items in the grid. Did they
> change that in 2005 or am I smoking crack and not sharing again.
>
> For every image I have an ID, ImageName , Caption and Story. Now I
> just need to be able to make a call by what ever means necessary to
> pull the data back and populate the detail portion of the page,
>
> Any Ideas?
>