Wednesday 1 May 2013

Asp.Net Entity Framework to select and display record in GridView

Asp.Net Entity Framework to select  and display record in GridView

.aspx

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="CS.aspx.cs" Inherits="CS" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title></title>

</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <asp:GridView ID="GridViewCS" CssClass="Grid" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false"
        PageSize="10" AllowPaging="true" DataSourceID="dsCustomers">
        <Columns>
            <asp:BoundField DataField="CustomerId" HeaderText="Customer Id" />
            <asp:BoundField DataField="ContactName" HeaderText="Contact Name" />
            <asp:BoundField DataField="City" HeaderText="City" />
            <asp:BoundField DataField="Country" HeaderText="Country" />
        </Columns>
    </asp:GridView>
    <asp:ObjectDataSource ID="dsCustomers" runat="server" EnablePaging="true" SelectMethod="GetCustomers"
        SelectCountMethod="GetCustomersCount" TypeName="CustomerDataSource" MaximumRowsParameterName="maxRows"
        StartRowIndexParameterName="startIndex"></asp:ObjectDataSource>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Inside App_Code Create entity framework .edmx file name Customer:-

CustomerDataSource.cs
Customers.Designer.cs
Customers.edmx

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CustomerDataSource.cs
 
 using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Linq;
using NorthwindModel;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class CustomerDS
{
    public List<Customer> GetCustomers(int startIndex, int maxRows)
    {
        using (NorthwindEntities entities = new NorthwindEntities())
        {
            return (from customer in entities.Customers
                    select customer)
                        .OrderBy(customer => customer.CustomerID)
                        .Skip(startIndex)
                        .Take(maxRows).ToList();
        }
    }

    public int GetCustomersCount()
    {
        using (NorthwindEntities entities = new NorthwindEntities())
        {
            return entities.Customers.Count();
        }
    }
}
Important in customer.designer.cs that is auto generated file
 public partial class NorthwindEntities : ObjectContext
    {
       
        public NorthwindEntities() : base("name=NorthwindEntities", "NorthwindEntities")
        {
            this.ContextOptions.LazyLoadingEnabled = true;
            OnContextCreated();
        }

   
       
    }