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14/08/2007 11:25:23
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
 
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Forum:
ASP.NET
Category:
Forms
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Environment:
VB 8.0
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Thread ID:
01247931
Message ID:
01248056
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>In my application, I have a DataGridViewbuttonColumn manually added to my DataGridView that I use to zoom in on a record. It works great.
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>I want to try to pretty up the button a little bit. Instead of just saying "Zoom", I would like a button with a magnifying glass on it, or something like that. Does anybody know how to do this?

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>Hey Mike,
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>There are probably dozens of ways to do this. Here's how I do it, by adding an icon column. I create a ButtonField object, set some properties, and add the object to the GridView.
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>ButtonField obt = new ButtonField();
>obt.CommandName = "Select";
>obt.ButtonType = ButtonType.Image;
>obt.ImageUrl = "openfolder.ico";   // or whatever icon you want
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>this.grdResults.Columns.Add(obt);
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>I'm guessing you already know this - clicking the button will fire the gridview's SelectedIndexChanged event, where you can grab the current gridview row.
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>Let me know if that helps...
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>P.S. I just realized that my brain is fried tonight - I pasted in some code from a webforms app. good grief! Well, the code may or may not work, sorry.
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>Kevin

Kevin,
I had actually found the icon column late yesterday afternoon, but haven't quite gotten it to do what I want it to do yet. I will post some code when I get it figured out. Thanks!
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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