"justin" <justinloren***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> One of the gridviews i'm using now apparently needs to have the added
> functionality of re-arranging the order of the records it's
> representing. These records have a priority field which the dataset
> gets sorted on and I thought the quickest way to do this would be to
> add "move up", "move down" buttons next to the grid which would shuffle
> the rows up and down by swapping their priority field values and
> updating.
>
> At least that seemed to be the quickest way before I spent a day
> pouring through documentation trying to find a way to get at the
> dataset of the gridview with no success whatsoever. Thing's locked up
> tighter than a duck's. Is there any way on God's green earth to access
> the data of a gridview? Or is there a better way to do this, you see it
> all the time with listboxes I'd hoped I could get the gridview to play
> along...
>

> I don't believe this is built in simply because row order is not usually an
> overriding concern. But's it's really easy to do. Just re-order the
> datasource, dataview, or dataset and rebind.
>
> On second thought, if you need flexibility in row ordering, you should be
> using a listbox and not a gridview.
>
> --
> ________________________
> Warm regards,
> Alvin Bruney [MVP ASP.NET]
>
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> "justin" <justinloren***@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1157144278.547454.192240@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > One of the gridviews i'm using now apparently needs to have the added
> > functionality of re-arranging the order of the records it's
> > representing. These records have a priority field which the dataset
> > gets sorted on and I thought the quickest way to do this would be to
> > add "move up", "move down" buttons next to the grid which would shuffle
> > the rows up and down by swapping their priority field values and
> > updating.
> >
> > At least that seemed to be the quickest way before I spent a day
> > pouring through documentation trying to find a way to get at the
> > dataset of the gridview with no success whatsoever. Thing's locked up
> > tighter than a duck's. Is there any way on God's green earth to access
> > the data of a gridview? Or is there a better way to do this, you see it
> > all the time with listboxes I'd hoped I could get the gridview to play
> > along...
> >

"justin" <justinloren***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1157476426.291379.222550@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Thanks for the reply Alvin,
> Yes a listbox would be a far more clever solution but the existing page
> uses the gridview's edit functionality so I can't really change it to a
> listbox. And you're right, you just have to re-order the dataset. I
> just can't find any way to prise that dataset out of the gridview, or
> the objectdatasource that i'm using for it. There doesn't seem to be
> any way to get to it.
>
> Alvin Bruney [MVP] wrote:
>> I don't believe this is built in simply because row order is not usually
>> an
>> overriding concern. But's it's really easy to do. Just re-order the
>> datasource, dataview, or dataset and rebind.
>>
>> On second thought, if you need flexibility in row ordering, you should be
>> using a listbox and not a gridview.
>>
>> --
>> ________________________
>> Warm regards,
>> Alvin Bruney [MVP ASP.NET]
>>
>> [Shameless Author plug]
>> Professional VSTO.NET - Wrox/Wiley
>> The O.W.C. Black Book with .NET
>> www.lulu.com/owc, Amazon
>> Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/blogs/alvin
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> "justin" <justinloren***@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1157144278.547454.192240@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> > One of the gridviews i'm using now apparently needs to have the added
>> > functionality of re-arranging the order of the records it's
>> > representing. These records have a priority field which the dataset
>> > gets sorted on and I thought the quickest way to do this would be to
>> > add "move up", "move down" buttons next to the grid which would shuffle
>> > the rows up and down by swapping their priority field values and
>> > updating.
>> >
>> > At least that seemed to be the quickest way before I spent a day
>> > pouring through documentation trying to find a way to get at the
>> > dataset of the gridview with no success whatsoever. Thing's locked up
>> > tighter than a duck's. Is there any way on God's green earth to access
>> > the data of a gridview? Or is there a better way to do this, you see it
>> > all the time with listboxes I'd hoped I could get the gridview to play
>> > along...
>> >
>