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John Price
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Can't figure out how to access headers
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I have a WebDataGrid that I bind dynamically by setting its data source to a DataTable.  This works fine, but I can't seem to get at the headers programmatically to change the captions, etc.  I want to do this server side.  It seems like it would be easy.  Things I tried:

 1) Accessing the Columns collection during various control events.  However, Columns.Count is always 0.  I put this code in every single event handler:

      if (gridTickets.Columns.Count > 0)

             Debugger.Break();

and it never seems to get populated.

 2) I see a protected HeaderCaptions collection, but that doesn't seem write.

 All I want to do is set some basic properties of the headers as the grid loads.  It's a read-only grid with no paging, so I guess I could just use a repeater or program an ASP table ... any ideas?

 

  • 14049
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    The columns should be set up either at design time or added at runtime
    before you call databind. AutoGenerateColumns should be set to false in
    that case.