HTML Writing with ASP.NET

[Taurian110]

In classic ASP we would have an HTML page and an ASP page.

In HTML page we would have a place holder something like this:

<form>
    <table>
         <!-- Values -->
    </table>
</form>

In ASP page we would replace the "<!-- Values -->" to the rest of the table information, something like this:

    stringTable = "<tr><td>" & tableRS("FieldName") & "</td></tr>"

    strOutPutHTML = Replace(strOutPutHTML , "<!-- Values -->", stringTable)
    response.write(strOutPutHTML)

How can we acomplish this in ASP.NET code behind using C#?

[cmiskow]

In ASP.NET, everything is handled with objects in the code-behind. Your example would be easy to do with a DataGrid, like so:

in the aspx HTML section:

<asp:DataGrid ID="dgResults" runat="server">
<Columns>
<asp:BoundColumn DataField="FieldName"></asp:BoundColumn>
</Columns>
</asp:DataGrid>

in the code-behind page (in the Page Load event for example):

// omitted: code for obtaining tableRS
dgResults.DataSource = tableRS;
dgResults.DataBind();

There are many options for things like this. If you want more control over your table, you can use a Table webcontrol and in the code you add TableRow objects to it and TableCell objects to the rows. For example:

private void loadTable()
{
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    {
        TableRow row = new TableRow();
        for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++)
        {
            TableCell cell = new TableCell();
            cell.Text = i.ToString() + ", " + j.ToString();
            row.Cells.Add(cell);
        }
        myTable.Rows.Add(row);
    }
}

would give you a 5x10 table with the row number and the column number in each cell.

[Taurian110]

Thanks. I appreciate the help.