Datasheet

8. The list of checkboxes on the GridView Tasks pop-up is just too tempting to ignore, so go ahead
and tick them all to enable paging, sorting, editing, deleting, and selection. At each stage, you’ll
see the grid in the page change to reflect the features you specify — such as adding the paging
controls below the grid, turning the header text for each column into a hyperlink, and adding
the Edit, Delete, and Select links to each row (as shown in Figure 1-28). Then click the Auto
Format link at the top of the GridView Tasks pop-up.
Figure 1-28: Adding links
The pop-up task panes like the GridView Tasks pane shown in Figure 1-28 can be displayed and hidden
by clicking on the small square icon that contains a left- or right-facing arrow. This icon appears at the
top right of any control that provides a task pane when you move the mouse over that control.
9. The Auto Format dialog that opens from the Auto Format link shows a list of preconfigured
styles that you can apply to the
GridView control. Select one (see Figure 1-29), and click OK.
Figure 1-29: Selecting a preconfigured style
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