FormViewInsertedEventHandler Delegate

Definition

Represents the method that handles the ItemInserted event of a FormView control.

C#
public delegate void FormViewInsertedEventHandler(object sender, FormViewInsertedEventArgs e);

Parameters

sender
Object

The source of the event.

e
FormViewInsertedEventArgs

A FormViewInsertedEventArgs that contains the event data.

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to programmatically add a FormViewInsertedEventHandler delegate to the ItemInserted event of a FormView control.

ASP.NET (C#)

<%@ Page language="C#" %>
<%@ import namespace="System.Data"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">

  // To dynamically create a template for a FormView control,
  // you must create a custom template class to represent 
  // the template. This template class represents the item
  // template for a FormView control.
  private sealed class EmployeeItemTemplate : ITemplate
  {

    // When implementing the ITemplate interface, you must
    // implement the InstantiateIn method. The FormView
    // control calls this method to create the template's 
    // content. 
    void ITemplate.InstantiateIn(Control container)
    {
      // Create the child controls contained in the template.
      // For this example, the item template displays the
      // FirstName and LastName fields from the data source.
      // To support data binding, create event handlers 
      // for the DataBinding event of each child control.
      // The event handlers must bind the appropriate value 
      // to each control.
      Label firstNameLabel = new Label();
      firstNameLabel.ID = "FirstNameLabel";
      firstNameLabel.DataBinding += new EventHandler(FirstNameLabel_DataBinding);

      LiteralControl nameLineBreak = new LiteralControl("<br/>");
      LiteralControl buttonLineBreak = new LiteralControl("<br/>");

      Label lastNameLabel = new Label();
      lastNameLabel.ID = "LastNameLabel";
      lastNameLabel.DataBinding += new EventHandler(LastNameLabel_DataBinding);

      Button newButton = new Button();
      newButton.ID = "NewButton";
      newButton.CommandName = "New";
      newButton.Text = "New";

      // Add the controls to the Controls collection of the 
      // container control.
      container.Controls.Add(firstNameLabel);
      container.Controls.Add(nameLineBreak);
      container.Controls.Add(lastNameLabel);
      container.Controls.Add(buttonLineBreak);
      container.Controls.Add(newButton);

    }

    // This event handler binds the value of the FirstName field
    // to the FirstNameLabel Label control displayed in the template.
    private void FirstNameLabel_DataBinding(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
      // Use the sender parameter to retrieve the Label control
      // being bound to data.
      Label firstNameLabelControl = (Label)sender;

      // Retrieve the value to bind to the Label control. First,
      // use the NamingContainer property to retrieve the parent 
      // control of the Label control. In this example, the parent 
      // control is the FormView control.
      FormView formViewContainer = (FormView)firstNameLabelControl.NamingContainer;

      // Get the data item bound to the FormView control.
      DataRowView rowView = (DataRowView)formViewContainer.DataItem;

      // Use the data item to retrieve the value of the FirstName field.
      // Set the Text property of the Label control to this value.        
      firstNameLabelControl.Text = rowView["FirstName"].ToString();
    }

    // This event handler binds the value of the LastName field
    // to the LastNameLabel Label control displayed in the template.
    private void LastNameLabel_DataBinding(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
      // Use the sender parameter to retrieve the Label control
      // being bound to data.
      Label lastNameLabelControl = (Label)sender;

      // Retrieve the value to bind to the Label control. First,
      // use the NamingContainer property to retrieve the parent 
      // control of the Label control. In this example, the parent 
      // control is the FormView control.
      FormView formViewContainer = (FormView)lastNameLabelControl.NamingContainer;

      // Get the data item bound to the FormView control.
      DataRowView rowView = (DataRowView)formViewContainer.DataItem;

      // Use the data item to retrieve the value of the LastName field.
      // Set the Text property of the Label control to this value.         
      lastNameLabelControl.Text = rowView["LastName"].ToString();
    }

  }
  
  // This template class represents the insert item
  // template for a FormView control.
  private sealed class EmployeeInsertItemTemplate : ITemplate
  {

    void ITemplate.InstantiateIn(Control container)
    {
      // Create the child controls contained in the template.
      // The insert item template should contain the input 
      // controls for the user to enter a record.
      TextBox firstNameTextBox = new TextBox();
      firstNameTextBox.ID = "FirstNameTextBox";

      LiteralControl nameLineBreak = new LiteralControl("<br/>");
      LiteralControl buttonLineBreak = new LiteralControl("<br/>");

      TextBox lastNameTextBox = new TextBox();
      lastNameTextBox.ID = "LastNameTextBox";

      Button insertButton = new Button();
      insertButton.ID = "InsertButton";
      insertButton.CommandName = "Insert";
      insertButton.Text = "Insert";

      Button cancelButton = new Button();
      cancelButton.ID = "CancelButton";
      cancelButton.CommandName = "Cancel";
      cancelButton.Text = "Cancel";

      // Add the controls to the Controls collection of the 
      // container control.
      container.Controls.Add(firstNameTextBox);
      container.Controls.Add(nameLineBreak);
      container.Controls.Add(lastNameTextBox);
      container.Controls.Add(buttonLineBreak);
      container.Controls.Add(insertButton);
      container.Controls.Add(cancelButton);

    }
  }

  void Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
  {

    // Create a new FormView object.
    FormView employeesFormView = new FormView();

    // Set the FormView object's properties.
    employeesFormView.ID = "EmployeesFormView";
    employeesFormView.DataSourceID = "EmployeeSource";
    employeesFormView.AllowPaging = true;
    employeesFormView.HeaderText = "Employee Name";
    employeesFormView.DataKeyNames = new String[1] { "EmployeeID" };

    // Programmatically register the event handlers for the 
    // the FormView control.
    employeesFormView.ItemInserted += new FormViewInsertedEventHandler(EmployeeFormView_ItemInserted);
    employeesFormView.ItemInserting += new FormViewInsertEventHandler(EmployeeFormView_ItemInserting);

    // Create the dynamic templates using the custom template classes.
    employeesFormView.ItemTemplate = new EmployeeItemTemplate();
    employeesFormView.InsertItemTemplate = new EmployeeInsertItemTemplate();
    
    // Add the FormView object to the Controls collection
    // of the PlaceHolder control.
    FormViewPlaceHolder.Controls.Add(employeesFormView);

  }

  void EmployeeFormView_ItemInserting(Object sender, FormViewInsertEventArgs e)
  {
    
    // Because the FormView control is dynamically generated, 
    // the Values collection must be programmatically populated
    // with the values for the record to insert.

    // Use the sender argument to retrieve the FormView
    // control that raised the event.
    FormView employeeFormView = (FormView)sender;
    
    // Retrieve the data row from the FormView control.
    FormViewRow row = employeeFormView.Row;

    // Retrieve the TextBox controls that contain the values 
    // entered by the user for the new record. 
    TextBox firstNameTextBox = (TextBox)row.FindControl("FirstNameTextBox");
    TextBox lastNameTextBox = (TextBox)row.FindControl("LastNameTextBox");

    if (firstNameTextBox != null && lastNameTextBox != null)
    {
      // Add the new values to the Values collections.
      e.Values.Add("FirstName", firstNameTextBox.Text);
      e.Values.Add("LastName", lastNameTextBox.Text);
    }

  }

  void EmployeeFormView_ItemInserted(Object sender, FormViewInsertedEventArgs e)
  {
    // Use the Exception property to determine whether an exception
    // occurred during the insert operation.
    if (e.Exception == null)
    {
      // Use the AffectedRows property to determine whether the
      // record was inserted. Sometimes an error might occur that 
      // does not raise an exception, but prevents the insert
      // operation from completing.
      if (e.AffectedRows == 1)
      {
        MessageLabel.Text = "Record inserted successfully.";
      }
      else
      {
        MessageLabel.Text = "An error occurred during the insert operation.";
        
        // Use the KeepInInsertMode property to keep the control in 
        // insert mode when an error occurs during the insert operation.
        e.KeepInInsertMode = true;
      }
    }
    else
    {
      // Insert the code to handle the exception.
      MessageLabel.Text = e.Exception.Message;
      
      // Use the ExceptionHandled property to indicate that the 
      // exception has already been handled.
      e.ExceptionHandled = true;
      e.KeepInInsertMode = true;
    }
  }

</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>FormView Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        
      <h3>FormView Example</h3>
      
      <!-- Use a PlaceHolder control as the container for the -->
      <!-- dynamically generated FormView control.            -->       
      <asp:placeholder id="FormViewPlaceHolder"
        runat="server"/>
      
      <br/><br/>
      
      <asp:label id="MessageLabel"
        forecolor="Red"
        runat="server"/>

      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects  -->
      <!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET     -->
      <!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value   -->
      <!-- from the Web.config file.                            -->
      <asp:sqldatasource id="EmployeeSource"
        selectcommand="Select [EmployeeID], [LastName], [FirstName] From [Employees]"
        insertcommand="Insert Into [Employees] ([LastName], [FirstName]) VALUES (@LastName, @FirstName)"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>" 
        runat="server"/>
            
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

The following example demonstrates how to declaratively add a FormViewInsertedEventHandler delegate to the ItemInserted event of a FormView control.

ASP.NET (C#)

<%@ Page language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">

  void EmployeeFormView_ItemInserted(Object sender, FormViewInsertedEventArgs e)
  {
    // Use the Exception property to determine whether an exception
    // occurred during the insert operation.
    if (e.Exception == null)
    {
      // Use the AffectedRows property to determine whether the
      // record was inserted. Sometimes an error might occur that 
      // does not raise an exception, but prevents the insert
      // operation from completing.
      if (e.AffectedRows == 1)
      {
        MessageLabel.Text = "Record inserted successfully.";
      }
      else
      {
        MessageLabel.Text = "An error occurred during the insert operation.";
        
        // Use the KeepInInsertMode property to keep the control in insert 
        // mode when an error occurs during the insert operation.
        e.KeepInInsertMode = true;
      }
    }
    else
    {
      // Insert the code to handle the exception.
      MessageLabel.Text = e.Exception.Message;
      
      // Use the ExceptionHandled property to indicate that the 
      // exception jhas already been handled.
      e.ExceptionHandled = true;
      e.KeepInInsertMode = true;
    }
  }

</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>FormViewInsertedEventHandler Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        
      <h3>FormViewInsertedEventHandler Example</h3>
                       
      <asp:formview id="EmployeeFormView"
        datasourceid="EmployeeSource"
        allowpaging="true"
        datakeynames="EmployeeID"
        emptydatatext="No employees found."
        oniteminserted="EmployeeFormView_ItemInserted"  
        runat="server">

        <itemtemplate>
          <table>
            <tr>
              <td rowspan="5">
                <asp:image id="CompanyLogoImage"
                  imageurl="~/Images/Logo.jpg"
                  alternatetext="Company logo"
                  runat="server"/>
              </td>
              <td colspan="2">
                    
              </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>
                <b>Name:</b>
              </td>
              <td>
                <%# Eval("FirstName") %> <%# Eval("LastName") %>
              </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>
                <b>Title:</b>
              </td>
              <td>
                <%# Eval("Title") %>
              </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td colspan="2">
                <asp:linkbutton id="NewButton"
                  text="New"
                  commandname="New"
                  runat="server"/> 
              </td>
            </tr>
          </table>       
        </itemtemplate>
        <insertitemtemplate>
          <table>
            <tr>
              <td rowspan="4">
                <asp:image id="CompanyLogoEditImage"
                  imageurl="~/Images/Logo.jpg"
                  alternatetext="Company logo"
                  runat="server"/>
              </td>
              <td colspan="2">
                    
              </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>
                <b>Name:</b>
              </td>
              <td>
                <asp:textbox id="FirstNameInsertTextBox"
                  text='<%# Bind("FirstName") %>'
                  runat="server"/>
                <asp:textbox id="LastNameInsertTextBox"
                  text='<%# Bind("LastName") %>'
                  runat="server"/>
              </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>
                <b>Title:</b>
              </td>
              <td>
                <asp:textbox id="TitleInsertTextBox"
                  text='<%# Bind("Title") %>'
                  runat="server"/> 
              </td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td colspan="2">
                <asp:linkbutton id="InsertButton"
                  text="Insert"
                  commandname="Insert"
                  runat="server"/>
                <asp:linkbutton id="CancelButton"
                  text="Cancel"
                  commandname="Cancel"
                  runat="server"/> 
              </td>
            </tr>
          </table>       
        </insertitemtemplate> 
                  
      </asp:formview>
      
      <br/><br/>
      
      <asp:label id="MessageLabel"
        forecolor="Red"
        runat="server"/>

      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects  -->
      <!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET     -->
      <!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value   -->
      <!-- from the Web.config file.                            -->
      <asp:sqldatasource id="EmployeeSource"
        selectcommand="Select [EmployeeID], [LastName], [FirstName], [Title], [PhotoPath] From [Employees]"
        insertcommand="Insert Into [Employees] ([LastName], [FirstName], [Title]) VALUES (@LastName, @FirstName, @Title)"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>" 
        runat="server"/>
            
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Remarks

The FormView control raises the ItemInserted event when an Insert button (a button with its CommandName property set to "Insert") within the control is clicked, but after the FormView control inserts the record. This allows you to provide an event-handling method that performs a custom routine, such as checking the results of an insert operation, whenever this event occurs.

When you create a FormViewInsertedEventHandler delegate, you identify the method that will handle the event. To associate the event with your event handler, add an instance of the delegate to the event. The event handler is called whenever the event occurs, unless you remove the delegate. For more information about event-handler delegates, see Handling and Raising Events.

Extension Methods

GetMethodInfo(Delegate)

Gets an object that represents the method represented by the specified delegate.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1

See also