Delete Selected Rows From Gridview in ASP.Net

We are using a checkbox inside a GridView and a button. The User selects the row from the checkbox that he want to delete and on a button click it is deleted from the GridView and from the database too.

Initial chamber

Step 1

Open Visual Studio 2010 and create an Empty Website, provide a suitable name (Gridview_demo).

Step 2

In Solution Explorer you get your empty website. Add a web form and a SQL Database as in the following.

For Web Form:

Gridview_demo (your empty website) then right-click then select Add New Item -> Web Form. Name it Gridview_demo.aspx.

For SQL Server Database:

Gridview_demo (your empty website) then right-click then select Add New Item -> SQL Server Database. (Add the database inside the App_Data_folder.)

Database chamber

Step 3

In the database (Database.mdf) we will create a table, tbl_Data. Go to the database.mdf -> Table then Add New table, design your table like this:

Table -> tbl_data (Don't forget to make ID -> Identity Specification -> Yes)

table design

Design chamber

Step 4

Now open your Gridview_demo.aspx file, where we create our simple design with the GridView and a button.

Gridview_demo.aspx

  1. <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>  
  2.   
  3. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">  
  4.   
  5. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">  
  6. <head runat="server">  
  7.     <title></title>  
  8. </head>  
  9. <body>  
  10.     <form id="form1" runat="server">  
  11.     <div>  
  12.       
  13.         <table style="width:100%;">  
  14.             <tr>  
  15.                 <td>  
  16.                      </td>  
  17.                 <td>  
  18.                      </td>  
  19.                 <td>  
  20.                      </td>  
  21.             </tr>  
  22.             <tr>  
  23.                 <td>  
  24.                      </td>  
  25.                 <td>  
  26.                     <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False"   
  27.                         DataKeyNames="id">  
  28.                         <Columns>  
  29.                             <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Student_ID">  
  30.                                 <EditItemTemplate>  
  31.                                     <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("id") %>'></asp:TextBox>  
  32.                                 </EditItemTemplate>  
  33.                                 <ItemTemplate>  
  34.                                     <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("id") %>'></asp:Label>  
  35.                                 </ItemTemplate>  
  36.                             </asp:TemplateField>  
  37.                             <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Student_Name">  
  38.                                 <EditItemTemplate>  
  39.                                     <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox2" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("name") %>'></asp:TextBox>  
  40.                                 </EditItemTemplate>  
  41.                                 <ItemTemplate>  
  42.                                     <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("name") %>'></asp:Label>  
  43.                                 </ItemTemplate>  
  44.                             </asp:TemplateField>  
  45.                             <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Student_City">  
  46.                                 <EditItemTemplate>  
  47.                                     <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox3" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("city") %>'></asp:TextBox>  
  48.                                 </EditItemTemplate>  
  49.                                 <ItemTemplate>  
  50.                                     <asp:Label ID="Label3" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("city") %>'></asp:Label>  
  51.                                 </ItemTemplate>  
  52.                             </asp:TemplateField>  
  53.                             <asp:TemplateField>  
  54.                                 <EditItemTemplate>  
  55.                                     <asp:CheckBox ID="CheckBox1" runat="server" />  
  56.                                 </EditItemTemplate>  
  57.                                 <ItemTemplate>  
  58.                                     <asp:CheckBox ID="CheckBox1" runat="server" />  
  59.                                 </ItemTemplate>  
  60.                             </asp:TemplateField>  
  61.                         </Columns>  
  62.                     </asp:GridView>  
  63.                 </td>  
  64.                 <td>  
  65.                      </td>  
  66.             </tr>  
  67.             <tr>  
  68.                 <td>  
  69.                      </td>  
  70.                 <td>  
  71.                     <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" onclick="Button1_Click" Text="Button" />  
  72.                 </td>  
  73.                 <td>  
  74.                      </td>  
  75.             </tr>  
  76.         </table>  
  77.       
  78.     </div>  
  79.     </form>  
  80. </body>  
  81. </html>  
For inserting the checkbox inside the GridView, click on the arrow button of the GridView where you can find Edit Column. In a new window (Fields) you need Checkbox Fields from the Available Fields.

Checkbox Fields

Here is what the design looks like:

design

Code chamber

Step 5

Open your Gridview_demo.aspx.cs and write some code so that the application works.

Gridview_demo.cs
  1. using System;  
  2. using System.Collections.Generic;  
  3. using System.Linq;  
  4. using System.Web;  
  5. using System.Web.UI;  
  6. using System.Web.UI.WebControls;  
  7. using System.Data;  
  8. using System.Data.SqlClient;  
  9.   
  10. public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page  
  11. {  
  12.   
  13.     SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\Database.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True");  
  14.     protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)  
  15.     {  
  16.         if (!Page.IsPostBack)  
  17.         {  
  18.             refreshdata();  
  19.         }  
  20.     }  
  21.   
  22.     public void refreshdata()  
  23.     {  
  24.   
  25.          
  26.         SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select * from tbl_data", con);  
  27.         SqlDataAdapter sda = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd);  
  28.         DataTable dt = new DataTable();  
  29.         sda.Fill(dt);  
  30.         GridView1.DataSource = dt;  
  31.         GridView1.DataBind();     
  32.       
  33.     }  
  34.   
  35.    protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)  
  36.     {  
  37.           
  38.         foreach (GridViewRow gvrow in GridView1.Rows)  
  39.         {  
  40.               
  41.             CheckBox chck = gvrow.FindControl("CheckBox1"as CheckBox;  
  42.             if (chck.Checked)  
  43.             {  
  44.                 var Label = gvrow.FindControl("Label1"as Label;  
  45.   
  46.                SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("delete from tbl_data where id=@id",con);  
  47.                cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("id"int.Parse(Label.Text));  
  48.                 con.Open();  
  49.                 int id = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();  
  50.                 con.Close();  
  51.                 refreshdata();  
  52.   
  53.                  
  54.             }  
  55.         }        
  56.          
  57.   
  58.     }  
  59. }  


Output chamber

gridview

Don't worry about the Id's that start from 4—8 since I used 1-4 Ids for testing.

delet select row

I hope you like it . Thank you for reading. Have a good day.

 


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