DataGrid user color selection

[Patrick Delifer]

HI,
I have a DataGrid displaying a list of orders. I want to give the user the
possibility of changing the row color (that he can select from a drop down
or something else). Is there a way to do this without affecting my DB? (I
was thinking of adding a Color column in my DB that would save his color
scheme, but then it adds a lot of load on the ItemdataBound that has to
iterate through every item in the DG.

Thanks

 

[Scott Mitchell [MVP]]

HI,
I have a DataGrid displaying a list of orders. I want to give the user the
possibility of changing the row color (that he can select from a drop down
or something else). Is there a way to do this without affecting my DB? (I
was thinking of adding a Color column in my DB that would save his color
scheme, but then it adds a lot of load on the ItemdataBound that has to
iterate through every item in the DG.

Patrick, there is a DataGrid-specific newsgroup, where you might want to
post such focused DataGrid questions in the future:
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.datagridcontrol.

Anywho, to answer your question, you could just store the color choice
in the database in a Users table (or whatever). Then, in the ASP.NET
Web page that displayed the DataGrid, the simplest thing would be to set
the DataGrid's ItemStyle.BackColor property to the user's preferred
color before binding the data to the DataGrid.

Make sense? Hope this helps!

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