Introduction

This code is about a Generic User Control made for GridView which can handle all the generic functionalities

Background

I am working for a project which uses a lot of GridView. Every GridView has different functionality. For example, few are view only, few have checkboxes only, and few are sortable, few needs paging facility and so on. So we thought to create a GridView whose properties can be driven from the database or configurable simply by reading from a file like web.config. A consumer of the GridView would know nothing about the GridView in advance, such as header, footer, column name, field name and so on; all would come from the database or config file. Even the client side functionality like javascript code, inside the child control of the GridView would be fetched by database. In short, GridView should be generic enough to cover all the functionalities of a regular GridView.

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