Rebind RadGrids Only When Datasource Changes?

[Daniel]

Hi Telerik Friends,

I am working on an application which uses RadGrids pretty heavily.  In order to make sure that the grids are up to date, I've put them on a timer to rebind at a regular interval.  This causes some problems though, and just seems heavy handed.

Is there a way to have my grids rebind only when there are explicit changes to the data-source?

I have some ideas of how to do this, but it could take a lot of time that I don't have!

Thanks for any help,

Dan

[Daniel]

For clarity -- by "changes to the datasource" I just mean when data is updated in database.

[Antonio Stoilkov]

Hello Daniel,

You need your timer because there is no way to check if the database have been updated. You could try and implement a method which will check if there are any changes in the database from the last time and only in this situation to rebind the grid.

Kind regards,
Antonio Stoilkov
the Telerik team