I'm creating an application using Visual Web Developer Express (2.0) and a
SQL 2000 database.  The database has one table with the following columns:

CaseloadKey,
EmployeeFTCount,
EmployeePTCount

I've already created a FormView that connects to the datasource and allows
for updating, deleting, inserting.  However, I've noticed that the textbox
controls within the formview are not in the position that I want and can't
find a way to easily re-position them.

Therefore, I created an HTML table and placed textbox controls in the table,
with the expectation to peform the same binding to the individual textboxes
as that done in the formview.  However, I cannot find good documentation as
to Bind to the datasource using the textbox control.  The asp code for the
form view uses the <%# Bind...> tag, but this doesn't seem to work on the
textbox.

Therefore...

1.  Is there an easy method to reposition/format the formview to match the
table's format?
2. Or, how to do I bind to the textbox control with the same functionality
as that of the formview?

If you have links to resources, that would help too.

Thanks,

Michael

Try putting the your table with the textboxes back into the FormView to
get 2 way databinding with your textboxes.

Else you can use CSS absolute positioning to position the textboxes
within the FormView without the aid of the table.

Hope that helps.

Try putting the your table with the textboxes back into the FormView to
get 2 way databinding with your textboxes.

Else you can use CSS absolute positioning to position the textboxes
within the FormView without the aid of the table.

Hope that helps.

Thanks.  But how do I get the [HTML] table into form view?


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Assuming you have VS 2005.
The first way is to first go into design view and "Choose Data Source"
action within the FormView to set your datasource.
This would also populate all the different templates in FormView with
the various controls.

Switch to HTML view and structure the controls within each of the 3
templates with the html table - yes, hand edit the html code with the
table, tr, td, etc tags.

The other way is to "Edit Templates" and drag & drop a table into each
of ItemTemplate, EditItemTemplate and InsertTemplate. Then drag & drop
the various controls into the table. Finally set all the properties
within each control correctly.

I think the first way has less room for error because the control's
properties are set by VS 2005.

I do believe the MSDN article you found describes the process in a more
detailed and less painful manner than mine.

Found a very good reference for what you are describing.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3fs4k4w4.aspx

I believe this should do the trick!!

Thanks again!

Michael


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