Dynamic Table Not Appearing

[sbushway]

Hi,
I'm dynamically creating a table in my code-behind but the table never appears when I run the program. Here's what I have so far:

Dim tbl As New Table
tbl.Width = 700
tbl.CellPadding = 0
tbl.CellSpacing = 0
tbl.Visible = True

Dim trHeaderRow01 As New TableRow

Dim tCell01 As New TableCell
tCell01.Text = "CYCLE"
trHeaderRow01.Cells.Add(tCell01)

Dim tCell02 As New TableCell
tCell02.Text = globalDV.Item(i).Item("rptcycle").ToString
trHeaderRow01.Cells.Add(tCell02)

Dim tCell03 As New TableCell
tCell03.Text = "RATING CHANGE AUTHORIZATION"
trHeaderRow01.Cells.Add(tCell03)

Dim tCell04 As New TableCell
tCell04.Text = globalDV.Item(i).Item("rptdate").ToString
trHeaderRow01.Cells.Add(tCell04)

tbl.Rows.Add(trHeaderRow01)

I've stepped through this section in my program and there is data to be filled into the table, so I doubt that's the problem.

Any idea why my table doesn't appear when I run it?

Thanks in advance,
Suzanne

 

[tperri]

I copied your code into a new project and it is working for me.

Explain to me how you are trying to display this table data?
I am pretty sure the problem lays within that area.

 

[ThatRickGuy]

Would this happen to be an ASP.Net question? If so, you may have better luck asking this question on the ASP.Net forum.

-Rick

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[tperri]

I also watch the ASP.Net Forum, so I don't mind helping you at all Suzanne.

 

[sbushway]

Hi again,

Well, I just figured it'd be a VB.NET question since I'm creating the table in my code-behind ...

Essentially the situation is this: I've got a bunch of data, grouped by a specific number. For instance, I'll have 1 record under 00001, 2 records under 00002, 1 record under 00003, etc. Every time the number is different, I want to print out a different header, containing that new number.

I read about nested repeaters, but I never quite understood how to implement them. And the query that outputs the data is so full of nested INNER and OUTER JOINs, I wasn't really keen on the idea of trying to re-write it to make it work for nested repeaters.

So since I've worked with dynamic tables before, I didn't think I'd have too much trouble (apparently I was wrong ...)

I'm calling a function from my Page_Load(). This function in turn calls a 'check' function (CheckUIC) to see if the number of the current row is the same as the number of the previous row - if it is, don't print out the header. If it's not the same, print out a new header, containing the new number.

 If CheckUIC(globalDV.Item(i).Item("uic_ctrl").ToString) = False Then

   Dim tbl As New Table
   tbl.Width = 700
   tbl.CellPadding = 0
   tbl.CellSpacing = 0
   tbl.Visible = True

   Dim trHeaderRow01 As New TableRow

   Dim tCell01 As New TableCell
   tCell01.Text = "CYCLE"
   trHeaderRow01.Cells.Add(tCell01)

   Dim tCell02 As New TableCell
   tCell02.Text = globalDV.Item(i).Item("rptcycle").ToString
   trHeaderRow01.Cells.Add(tCell02)

   Dim tCell03 As New TableCell
   tCell03.Text = "RATING CHANGE AUTHORIZATION"
   trHeaderRow01.Cells.Add(tCell03)

   Dim tCell04 As New TableCell
   tCell04.Text = globalDV.Item(i).Item("rptdate").ToString
   trHeaderRow01.Cells.Add(tCell04)

   tbl.Rows.Add(trHeaderRow01)
End If

So if it's working for you, it must mean that there's something in my logic.

I noticed something funny - if I create a table in the HTML of my .ASPX page, but with no TR or TD tags (just TABLE tags), and add rows and columns to that table in my code-behind, I can get data to show up.

But if I create the table from my code-behind, it's not working.

Weird...

Thanks again for your help!
Suzanne

 

[sbushway]

I figured it out - I'm a dummy. I forgot to do the "Me.Controls.Add(tbl)" to my code.

Sorry about that

 

[tperri]

Hah no problem.