I am doing a mock up of a web app and I need to display the columns of the Grid without a Datasource or records, basically I just need the grid to display for look and feel purposes. So far I can't get anything to show but a blank space.
Thanks!
Sam
Thanks!
Sam
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Hi Sam,
RadGrid does not support "unbound mode", i.e. if you don't bind it to some datasource, the control will not render a <table>. You can have columns with no rows as in the example below (declarative columns, AutoGenerateColumns="false" and ShowHeadersWhenNoRecords="true"), but I doubt that this is your purpose in this case. I recommend you to use a dummy datasource.
(change the value of rowsNum in the demo below)
Sincerely yours,
Dimo
the Telerik team
RadGrid does not support "unbound mode", i.e. if you don't bind it to some datasource, the control will not render a <table>. You can have columns with no rows as in the example below (declarative columns, AutoGenerateColumns="false" and ShowHeadersWhenNoRecords="true"), but I doubt that this is your purpose in this case. I recommend you to use a dummy datasource.
(change the value of rowsNum in the demo below)
<%@ Page Language="C#" %><%@ Import Namespace="System.Data" %><%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" TagPrefix="telerik" %><script runat="server"> protected void RadGrid_NeedDataSource(object sender, GridNeedDataSourceEventArgs e) { DataTable dt = new DataTable(); DataRow dr; int colsNum = 4; int rowsNum = 0; string colName = "Column"; for (int j = 1; j <= colsNum; j++) { dt.Columns.Add(String.Format("{0}{1}", colName, j)); } for (int i = 1; i <= rowsNum; i++) { dr = dt.NewRow(); for (int k = 1; k <= colsNum; k++) { dr[String.Format("{0}{1}", colName, k)] = String.Format("{0}{1} Row{2}", colName, k, i); } dt.Rows.Add(dr); } (sender as RadGrid).DataSource = dt; }</script><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head runat="server"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /><title>RadControls</title></head><body><form id="form1" runat="server"><asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" /><telerik:RadGrid ID="RadGrid1" runat="server" AllowPaging="true" AutoGenerateColumns="false" OnNeedDataSource="RadGrid_NeedDataSource"> <MasterTableView ShowHeadersWhenNoRecords="true"> <Columns> <telerik:GridBoundColumn HeaderText="My Column 1" DataField="Column1" /> <telerik:GridBoundColumn HeaderText="My Column 2" DataField="Column2" /> <telerik:GridBoundColumn HeaderText="My Column 3" DataField="Column3" /> <telerik:GridBoundColumn HeaderText="My Column 4" DataField="Column4" /> </Columns> </MasterTableView></telerik:RadGrid></form></body></html>Sincerely yours,
Dimo
the Telerik team
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