how to add AutoGenerateEditButton="True" in codebehind

Question

I am creating a grid view dynamically and everything works perfect. But i can't seem to add this property in my code behind when i create the DataGrid. Is there something that i need to do in order to allow this?

DataGrid DG = new DataGrid();
DG.ID = "test";
// This doesn't allow me to add this
DG.AutoGenerateEditButton = true;
DG.DataSource = tbl;
DG.DataBind();

I can see that option when i add a grid view to my aspx page, but in code behind i can't seem to add it.

Answer 1

The problem here is you are using the DataGrid type which does not have a AutoGenerateEditButton property. That property is present on the GridView class. If you switch to using a GridView this code will compile (although it may cause other errors in parts of the code which aren't shown that depended on the type being DataGrid)