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CommandField.ShowSelectButton Property

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Definition

Namespace:
System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:
System.Web.dll

Gets or sets a value indicating whether a Select button is displayed in a CommandField field.

public:
 virtual property bool ShowSelectButton { bool get(); void set(bool value); };
public virtual bool ShowSelectButton { get; set; }
member this.ShowSelectButton : bool with get, set
Public Overridable Property ShowSelectButton As Boolean

Property Value

Boolean

true to display a Select button in a CommandField; otherwise, false. The default is false.

Examples

The following code example demonstrates how to use the ShowSelectButton property to display a Select button for each record in a GridView control.


<%@ Page language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
  
  void CustomersGridView_SelectedIndexChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
    // Retrieve the company name from the appropriate cell.
    String companyName = CustomersGridView.SelectedRow.Cells[2].Text;
   
    // Display company name selected by the user.
    Message.Text = "You selected " + companyName + ".";
  }
  
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>CommandField Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
      
      <h3>CommandField Example</h3>
      
      <asp:Label id="Message"
        forecolor="Red"
        runat="server"/>

      <asp:gridview id="CustomersGridView" 
        datasourceid="CustomersSqlDataSource" 
        autogeneratecolumns="false"
        datakeynames="CustomerID"
        onselectedindexchanged="CustomersGridView_SelectedIndexChanged"   
        runat="server">
        
        <columns>
          <asp:commandfield showselectbutton="true"
            headertext="Select Customer"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="CustomerID"
            headertext="Customer ID" />
          <asp:boundfield datafield="CompanyName"
            headertext="Company Name"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="Address"
            headertext="Address"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="City"
            headertext="City"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="PostalCode"
            headertext="ZIP Code"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="Country"
            headertext="Country"/>
        </columns>
        
      </asp:gridview>
            
      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects  -->
      <!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET     -->
      <!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value   -->
      <!-- from the Web.config file.                            -->
      <asp:sqldatasource id="CustomersSqlDataSource"  
        selectcommand="Select [CustomerID], [CompanyName], [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country] From [Customers]"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>"
        runat="server">
      </asp:sqldatasource>
            
    </form>
  </body>
</html>


<%@ Page language="VB" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
  
  Sub CustomersGridView_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles CustomersGridView.SelectedIndexChanged
 
    ' Retrieve the company name from the appropriate cell.
    Dim companyName As String = CustomersGridView.SelectedRow.Cells(2).Text
   
    ' Display company name selected by the user.
    Message.Text = "You selected " & companyName & "."
    
  End Sub
  
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>CommandField Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
      
      <h3>CommandField Example</h3>
      
      <asp:Label id="Message"
        forecolor="Red"
        runat="server"/>

      <asp:gridview id="CustomersGridView" 
        datasourceid="CustomersSqlDataSource" 
        autogeneratecolumns="false"
        datakeynames="CustomerID"  
        runat="server">
        
        <columns>
          <asp:commandfield showselectbutton="true"
            headertext="Select Customer"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="CustomerID"
            headertext="Customer ID" />
          <asp:boundfield datafield="CompanyName"
            headertext="Company Name"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="Address"
            headertext="Address"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="City"
            headertext="City"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="PostalCode"
            headertext="ZIP Code"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="Country"
            headertext="Country"/>
        </columns>
        
      </asp:gridview>
            
      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects  -->
      <!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET     -->
      <!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value   -->
      <!-- from the Web.config file.                            -->
      <asp:sqldatasource id="CustomersSqlDataSource"  
        selectcommand="Select [CustomerID], [CompanyName], [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country] From [Customers]"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>"
        runat="server">
      </asp:sqldatasource>
            
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Remarks

Use the ShowSelectButton property to specify whether a Select button is displayed in a CommandField field for each record in the data-source control. The Select button allows the user to select a row in the data-source control. When the Select button for a record is clicked, the data-source control responds accordingly. For example, a GridView control updates the SelectedDataKey, SelectedIndex, SelectedRow, and SelectedValue properties to values corresponding to the selected row. The SelectedRowStyle style is then applied to the selected row and the SelectedIndexChanged and SelectedIndexChanging events are raised.

When the ButtonType property of a CommandField field is set to ButtonType.Button or ButtonType.Link, use the SelectText property to specify the text to display for a Select button. Alternatively, you can display an image by first setting the ButtonType property to ButtonType.Image and then setting the SelectImageUrl property.

Applies to

See also