On Dec 29, 6:40*pm, "Mark Rae [MVP]" <m... (AT) markNOSPAMrae (DOT) net> wrote:
I'm pretty fresh to .NET (as u can probably tell , and always liked
the control ASP gave me (I don't like using wizards to bind data etc
since i feel I lose flexibility and control)... I know .NET is pretty
flexible, I just have to learn all the tricks. The way I'm loading my
data is through a function I wrote that loads a DataTable into memory
(global var on the page), then binds a DataView to the GridView (based
on the users filters), my hopes are to avoid going to the server to
reload the DataTable with each filter change. So what I was doing is
when loading my DataTable, I updated the text of one of the columns
with a "<LABEL>" -- I see now it's not the right approach.

Thanks a lot for the responses and insight... looks like the
DataKeyNames can satisfy my needs for sure, and I will try messing
with actually adding controls to the cell.