Need help with DataGrid Hyperlink column - VB .NET ASPX application

[Danielle]

Good afternoon all -

I hope you can help with what should be something fairly easy. I have
found several posts but none of them have helped - they are too
scattered to pull together.

I am trying to write a really simple web application that will query a
table for a list of report groups. The name of any single group can be
passed to a URL and when called correctly, the URL wll display
accordingly.

I obviously could just build a HTML table, but since the number of
report groups could change, I thought it would be more dynamic to use
a DataGrid and then this page would be relatively maintenance free.

Two issues:

1. I can get the report list just fine and even build a rudimentary
hyperlink column that actually kind of works. However, I am developing
on my laptop, do not have access to put my page onto the production
and by default the URL points to my laptop IIS server. This makes it
impossible to really test anything. How can I use an external URL?

2. What if I need to also pass a parameter from another datasource?

Thanks in advance-
Danielle

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Danielle-

The datagrid is for editing data, in my idea a little to complicated beast
for what you want.

I would probably use by instance a datalist or a repeater in your case for
this.

-Cor