datagrid, array, datakeyfield

[DotNetGnat]

Guys,

i am binding an array to the datagrid as shown below

string[] blah;
blah = GetMyArray();
mydg.DataSource = blah;
[red]mydg.DataKeyField = ???[/red]
mydb.DataBind();

i am not sure how to set the datakeyfield??

-DNG

 

[Affleck]

What is the format of your array?

In order to specify a key, you will need to use a key, value pair type collection such as a hashtable.

Why are you wanting to specify the DataKeyField?

Affleck

there are 10 types of people in this world those who understand binary, and those who don't.

 

[DotNetGnat]

thanks for responding Affleck...

my function GetMyArray() returns a one dimensional string array which will look something like this

blah[0]= "foo"
blah[1] = "bar"
--
--
--

when it is bound to the datagrid as shown in my first post...i get the output as

Item
______
foo
bar
...

then i changed the definition of datagrid on the aspx page and created a item template and used this

<ItemTemplate>
<%# Container.DataItem %>
</ItemTemplate>

also i added another button column to my datagrid and result looked like this:

Details | list
_______________

click | foo
click | bar
...

so now when the user clicks the button "click" i want to do something specific to the selected click button and for which i was thinking of assigning the DataKeyfield...

what other alternatives do i for this??

-DNG