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Losing column viewstate after postback

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Caesar asked on 15 Feb 2011, 08:52 AM

Hi,

I have a case where I don't know which columns that should be generated for a grid until I am in NeedDataSource.
Then I tried to add the columns in that event. I would really like to use the built in EnableColumnViewState since that simplifies a lot, but the problem is that some (most?) properties are lost on postback, for example the HeaderText of the column in the following sample:

<%@ Page Language="vb" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeBehind="WebForm1.aspx.vb" Inherits="WebApplication4.WebForm1" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head runat="server">

<title></title>

<script runat="server">

Sub rg_NeedDataSource(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Telerik.Web.UI.GridNeedDataSourceEventArgs) Handles rg.NeedDataSource

rg.Columns.Clear()

Dim col As New Telerik.Web.UI.GridBoundColumn()

col.DataField = "Col2"

col.HeaderText = "My header text"

rg.Columns.Add(col)

Dim dt As New System.Data.DataTable()

dt.Columns.Add("Col1", GetType(String))

dt.Columns.Add("Col2", GetType(String))

For i As Integer = 0 To 10

dt.Rows.Add({"Row" & i, "Data"})

Next

rg.DataSource = dt

End Sub

</script>

</head>

<body>

<form id="form1" runat="server">

<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager" runat="server">

</asp:ScriptManager>

<div>

<telerik:RadGrid ID="rg" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false">

</telerik:RadGrid>

<asp:Button ID="aaa" runat="server" Text="Postback" />

</div>

</form>

</body>

</html>

From what I can see in your source code it should work, but it doesn't, or am I missing something?

Regards
Caesar

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answered on 15 Feb 2011, 11:48 AM

Hello Caesar,

In order to avoid this issue, you have to add the columns to the corresponding collection first, before the values for their properties are set. And you can use the Page_Load event handler to add the columns to RadGrid.

VB.NET:

Protected Sub Page_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)

If Not IsPostBack Then

Dim col As New Telerik.Web.UI.GridBoundColumn()

rg.Columns.Add(col)

col.DataField = "Col2"

col.HeaderText = "My header text"

End If

End Sub

Please take a look at the following documentation which explains how to dynamically add columns to grid.
Programmatic creation

Thanks,
Princy.