I'm afraid I don't know anything about ASP.Net. This forum is for WinForms. You should post your question in the appropriate forum in the ASP.Net forums.

Hi Mike,

I am using the Nautilus style for the grid in asp.net page and running into a similar issue. All i want is to

have the grid lines visible for all the rows and columns. Even though, i have turned it on, by default the grid lines

do not show up for the alternate rows. Could you please help me with this issue. It looks like similar to

the issue being addressed in this post. I tired to follow the steps you gave but kind of got lost while doing it.

Also what is not clear is how do app style these changes make it to the website.

Thanks!!!

Mike -

This did the trick! Thanks so much for taking the time to drill into the AppStyle and figure it out.

As a developer, I hate getting hung up on the little things like "alternate row color" which seem so trivial and overall don't impact the project that much. But I also HATE not being able to change a property as simple as "alternate row color" and if I don't understand why it's not working then I'm always afraid there's more out there that I'm not understanding which could impact the project.

Thanks again! 

I can certainly understand that.If you don't want to spend any more time pursuing this, then that is, of course, up to you.

I took another look and it looks like I was wrong - or rather, I was right about the base role, but that's not quite complete. In addition to making the cells transparent, there is also an Image background applied to the rows. So you have to get rid of both.

In case you want to try again, here's exactly what I did:

1. Run AppStylist
2. Click Create New Library - the New Style Library Wizard comes up with "Start From Existing Library" selected.
3. Click Next and I am presented with a list of style libraries. I choose Nautilus.isl
4. Click Finish. 
5. Click on the Grid tab.
6. Mouse over any row in the grid and press 2 to go to the GridRow UIRole. 
7. The Properties editor at the bottom now displays the Normal state for the row and if you look in the Background section at the Image dropdown, you will see there is a sort've green hill icon displayed there indicating that there's an Image applied to the row. Drop this down and select None to remove it. This has no apparent effect, except that the grid now shows lines between the columns.
8. Switch to the Other States tab. The only state listed here is Alternate Item and you can set a solid backcolor here. You now see lines not just around the row, but also in between the cells. So we're making progress.
9. Mouse over a cell in the grid and press the number 1 to go to the GridCell UIRole.
10. Now if you set the BackColor to Transparent, all of the rows in the grid change color. The alternate rows appear in the color you selected. The normal rows appear gray because the default row color is showing through. So you might want to go back to the GridRow UIRole and set the Normal color to White.

First of all...Thanks Mike. I appreciate you taking a look at this.

I still can't get it to work...even with the GridCell UIRole changes. Whatever is blocking the cell row color still overrides any of my settings. There are so many properties to consider within these controls that it takes a lot of work to drill down and find what you need sometimes. At this point I've wasted way too much time on something as stupid as the "alternate row color" that could be put to use on something else - know what I mean? - so I've moved on. I changed my starting library to the VS2008 template and the alternate color works great.

Sometimes development is all about compromise and keeping focus on the end goal...and while I prefer the Nautilus style, there's a work around with VS2008 that allows greater control of the grid both in the AppStyle designer and in code - so it's all good.

Thanks again!