Hi,

I'm a new boy to website design in general and VWD in particular. I'm following an exercise (6-2) in a book called 'Beginning VWD Express 2005, by Paul Sarknas.

Anyway, I created a blank project, then added and succesfully configured a sqldatasource control. Then I dropped a Gridview and connected it to the data source. Everything works well, I can see the data displayed as it should be when I build the page. Fine.

Then the excercise requires me to insert the following code in order to bind the data -

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="UnitPrice">

<ItemTemplate>

<asp:Label ID="labelPrice" runat="server"

Text='<%#Eval( "UnitPrice" )%>'></asp:Label>

</ItemTemplate>

</asp:TemplateField>

When I begin typing the <asp, the little drop down menu offers me all the possible elements, but TemplateField isn't one of them. When I've finished typing there is a squiggly line (sorry for the 'tech' speak) under TemplateField, ItemTemplate, and asp:Label. When I build and view the page there is no difference.

Why isn't TemplateView available on the dropdown list, and why isn't it recognised as an element/class? And do I really need to learn databinding to design commercial websites?

Thanks for your help in anticipation.

Michael

 

Please try posting this in one of the asp.net forums. This forum is for windows forms questions.

Please try posting this in one of the asp.net forums. This forum is for windows forms questions.