Want To Sort the Content of the Gridview while clicking any of the Columns headertext

Hi,

Whether you want to display all the data in the ascending order only after you click the header of any column in the gridview.
or you just want to display all the data in the ascending order by default.

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Santhi .V

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yeah, it can be done in the grid view, i hope u might be using templetefield (and if not then you should use it ) inside that take an ItemTemplate
i'm giving an example for only one column,you create it more as per your requirements.

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText = "Product Name" SortExpression="Name">
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:LinkButton ID=ProductNameLinkButton" runat="server" ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Left" EnableViewState="true" Text='<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"ProductName")%>' // here 'ProductName' is the column name of your table
></asp:LinkButton>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>

the .cs file u can use LINQ for sorting . also u must create a session for this and pass the object to this session.
simple ex: for the same

 List<YourEntityClass> listObjectForSorting = (List<YourEntityClass>)Session["GridDataForSorting"];

 if (sortExp == "Name")

                {

                    var reslst = from l in listObjectForSorting orderby l.ProductName ascending select l;



                    listObjectForSorting = reslst.ToList();

                 }



//finally at the end of all



 adminGridViewId.DataSource = listObjectForSorting;

  adminGridViewId.DataBind();

   Session["GridDataForSorting"] = listObjectForSorting;

Hope this would help you...
let me know for any clarifications...
happy coding,
Regards,
Rabbil Ahmad

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Am using Bound Field Can it be done in the similar way

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No, this is not possible in BoundField,because in bound feild we can only bind the data directly but we can't customise it,
so according to the given case above, we can have a link button on the header column (for which we must use custom tag )i.e we can only do in TemplateField for the custom display of content.

any more clarifications would be highly accepted...!!

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