In your project make a new .aspx page and edit its as following :
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %> <!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>Untitled Page</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <asp:GridView runat="server" ID="datagrid" BackColor="White" BorderColor="#CCCCCC" BorderStyle="None" BorderWidth="1px" CellPadding="3"> <RowStyle ForeColor="#000066" /> <FooterStyle BackColor="White" ForeColor="#000066" /> <PagerStyle BackColor="White" ForeColor="#000066" HorizontalAlign="Left" /> <SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#669999" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" /> <HeaderStyle BackColor="#006699" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" /> </asp:GridView> </div> </form> </body> </html>
Open your web.config file and add a ConnectionString for making connection to SQL database.
<connectionStrings> <add name="myconnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=h-pc;Initial Catalog=mydatabase;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=sa;Password=123" /> </connectionStrings>
Open the .cs page (code file) and edit it as following :
using System; using System.Configuration; using System.Data; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Xml.Linq; using System.Data.SqlClient; using System.Data.Sql; public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page { String myconnectionString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["myconnectionstring"].ConnectionString; SqlConnection con; SqlDataAdapter adapter; DataSet ds; SqlCommand cmd; protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { con = new SqlConnection(myconnectionString); cmd = new SqlCommand("select * from mytable", con); con.Open(); adapter = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd); ds = new DataSet(); adapter.Fill(ds, "mytable"); datagrid.DataSource = ds.Tables[0]; datagrid.DataBind(); con.Close(); } }
Furthermore if your are interested in more gridview topics like adding buttons in it,gridview with updatepanel, you can refer these posts :
GridView with update panel in ASP.NET
GridView with Buttons ASP.NET C#
Import csv file to ms sql server using ASP.NET C#
STYLING THE GRIDVIEW IN ASP.NET
Enjoy!!!!