gridview - foreign keys

Question

User-718345057 posted

hi all,

I a have gridview with a few foreign keys in. When I run the page with the gridview in it show the the foreign keys. But
I want it to display the real values of the foreign keys.

I am programming in 3 triers ,and make use of an objectdatasource.

If you have any tutorial on this, please let me know :).

kind regards

Xenta

Answer 1

User1592241370 posted

Hi,

you can use Entity Framework, it provide you posibility to navitage through relations and get complete object not only id. Also you can bind entity framework objects to DataControls easily.

http://justgeeks.blogspot.com/2009/06/using-gridview-entity-framework-linq.html

http://learnentityframework.com/LearnEntityFramework/tutorials/asp-net-databinding-with-linq-to-entities/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738469.aspx

good luck

Answer 2

User-718345057 posted

thx for your answer, I found an other solution but entity framework looks very interesting !

grtz