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Integrating a new webgrid - backing up and taking another run at it

I'm continuing the integration with Intersoft's WebGrid.NET product that I started blogging about here. All of their sample code places the database connection and dataadapters on the page object, while our application uses business objects. I started by trying to fit my model to the product and I keep running into problems. I'm backtracking and making a page work according to their model and then 'backing in' the business object approach one piece at a time. I think this will give me a better shot and integrating all the necessary pieces and being confident about the move.

Published Aug 24 2004, 08:59 AM by shebert

Filed under: Intersoft WebGrid.NET

Comments

Senkwe said:

Oh my God. I never thought I'd actually ever come across anyone else that had the misfortune of having to work with Intersofts WebGrid. Please, for your sanity, run, turn and flee as fast as you can from that abomination of a control that is Intersofts WebGrid. At our company, the decision to use that WebGrid aka "load of crap" was made almost silently, I didn't protest loudly enough I guess, and it was a complete and utter disaster. You'll end up having to write the most God awful spaghetti code to make it fit your own code. Need to get the checked values of checkbox column? Good luck. Need to implement server side caching? Hope you get paid overtime. Need help trying to do something? You sucker, that'll be in the next version. Need documentation? Hahaha. Need to drill down into the properties of each row to find some semblance of organization? Well here's a property named "a", oh and here's one named "aa", you figure it out.

*takes deep breath*

I vow never to use that piece of shite again.

# August 24, 2004 9:44 AM

Senkwe said:

That should be "server side paging" not caching, by the way :-)

# August 24, 2004 10:24 AM

Steve Hebert said:

Hi Senkwe,

Thank you for the comments, I'm stepping back and looking at the product more closely. So far I haven't run into arbitrary property/method naming and their support has been very helpful. What version of their code did you run?

Needless to say I'm moving forward very cautiously.

Thank you, Steve

# September 1, 2004 8:57 AM

Senkwe said:

Stephen, I don't remember what version it was as I've told management I refuse to work with it. However, I'm glad (and somewhat surprised) that it's working well for you. Perhaps they've updated it, or maybe I just didn't have enough patience for it. If all goes well, do blog more about your experience. You never know, hell might freeze over and I might revisit it :-)

# September 1, 2004 11:12 AM

James said:

Hi Senkwe,

It seems that you were using V3.1. The V3.5 is much improved and there are lot of helpful tech articles at their website.

To get the values of checked rows, you can simply use GetCheckedRows() method, is it too difficult for you?

And well, there are no property named "a" or "aa".

God Bless You.
James.

# November 28, 2004 11:29 PM