clone a datagrid

[Felix]

Is it possible to clone a datagrid?

I've created a datagrid on my aspx page, editing various attributes,
adding columns, etc. I would like to, in code, create an arbitrary
number of these datagrids. Any ideas?

I thought that perhaps I should createa a separate "web user control".
I added my datagrid to this control, I compiled, then I dragged the
control to my aspx page. The control did not render in the designer.

The reason I would prefer to clone, or at the very least, have the
control render nicely, is that I would like a non-programmer to be
able to go in and tweak the gui a little. This approach has worked so
far on the project.

Thanks for any help,
Felix

 

[Picho]

Felix,

If the DataGrid class is not Cloneable (does not contain Clone() method) you
can allways inherite from datagrid, let say, MyDataGrid that implements
ICloneable interface (and implement public object Clone() ) that will return
the cloned datagrid.
this method has to do a shallow/deep cloning - as you choose.

Picho

 

[Felix]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I believe that implementing the Clone()
method would not be trivial. How do I easily copy all the attributes
and columns, etc?

Thanks,
Felix