Begin Editing the Templates in ASP.NET Dynamic Data Applications

Nice videos!

Is there already a video which showing editing page templates?

Grz,

Marco

this is very informative.

Does anyone know how to handle autonumber fields if SQL Server 2k8 is your back end DB? This occurs when you try and insert a new entity instance or record. The Dynamic Data defaults the autonumber field to an empty text box but if you try to submit w/ the field empty then the site will return an error. Really I'd like the site to make it an read only label that is autogenerated from the database field's counter.

Thank you.

Andrew

Something like that happened to me a couple days ago, but I'm not sure if it's the exact problem I had. I just went to the source view of the page with the DetailsView control (in my case), found the "Insert" command, and removed any reference in the SQL statement to the Id that it was trying to insert. You may try that.

Andrew - I had the same problem. When drag a table onto the dbml designer surface, click on the Field that is autonumber (you mean its "Identity Specification = Yes" in Sql Server, yeah?) then view the Properties window - the "Auto Generated Value" property should be True. If that is the case then the web page will run as you'd expect (the ID column is hidden by default and it doesn't error when you Insert).

However, I've found that sometimes this property isn't set properly and I need to set it to true manually.

I don't know why it misbehaves, or what's the best course of action to rectify it - but this works for me at least.

Cheers,

Pete.

These videos on dynamic data are great....any video examples of how best to past a form or server variable to the templates? i.e. show only one record in ListView

Thanks.

Thank you so much for these calm, detailed introductions to the new features.

nice video