Reloading GridView contents

[Chris]

How can I refresh the contents of a gridview that's on a different
form than the one I'm using? The gridview is bound to a datasource,
and in this other form I'm writing to the database that this
datasource is created by. I have to manually close and restart my app
to see the updated contents in the gridview. Any suggestions are
appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Consider (among many other solutions) making a public static Method
"RefreshData" on the form you need to have refreshed. You can then make a
call to this method from the other form, eg. MyOtherForm.RefreshData()
This would get the latest data from the database and then rebind the Grid.

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[Chris]

Ok, that makes sense. And in that method, the actual command to
refresh the gridview is 'gridview.refresh()' ? Or do I need to re
bind the datasource? And if so, how?

Thanks!!

 

[Guest]

You would need to re-get the data just as if for the first time, and
re-assign it to the DataSource property.
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[Chris]

Ok, so I have this public function on the same form as the gridview,
that basically sets its datasource to null, and rebinds it after
running a query. If I call that function, from within the same form,
the gridview refreshes just fine. But if I call that public function
from a different form, it doesn't do anything. Not sure where to go
from here...