WebDataWindowControl properties

This section lists the properties for the WebDataWindowControl that are specific to the control (some properties are inherited from the System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl class). Table 9-2 lists the properties you can set in the Properties view. Table 9-3 lists the properties you can use in code to get information about the DataWindow object or control.

For more detailed information about each property, see the Sybase DataWindow online Help in the development environment or the DataWindow Reference compiled Help file (dwref20.chm).

Understanding how properties interact

Some properties that you can set in the Properties window in Visual Studio .NET can also be set for the DataWindow object in DataWindow Designer. If a property is set in DataWindow Designer, it is respected in DataWindow .NET. However, the properties you set in the painter are not reflected in the Properties view, which displays default values for most properties.

See Table 10-5 for a comparison of properties set in the two environments.

If you have set a property in DataWindow Designer, change the default for its equivalent in the Properties window only if you want to override the value set in the painter. If default values are changed in the Properties view, they override the values set in the painter. If default values are not changed, properties set in DataWindow Designer are used. For example:

ClientEvents is true by default in both the painter and the WebDataWindowControl. If you set it to false in the painter, client events will be disabled even though the control property is set to true.
If you set the XmlConfigurations.UrlPath property in the WebDataWindowControl, any ResourceBase and PublishPath properties set in the painter are not used.

**Table 9-2: Properties that can be set for the WebDataWindowControl**
Property	Description
AutoRestoreContext, AutoRestoreDataCache, AutoSaveDataCacheAfterRetrieve, EnableDataState	Properties used to customize context management and data caching. See “Maintaining state”.
ClientEventButtonClicked, ClientEventButtonClicking, ClientEventClicked, ClientEventItemChanged, ClientEventItemError, ClientEventItemFocusChanged, ClientEventRowFocusChanged, ClientEventRowFocusChanging	Properties used to specify event handlers for events on the Web DataWindow client control. See Chapter 12, “Writing Scripts for the Web DataWindow Client Control.”
ClientEvents	Specifies whether client events can be fired. You can reduce the size of the generated Web DataWindow control by setting the ClientEvents, ClientFormatting, ClientScriptable, and ClientValidation properties to false. See “Controlling the size of generated code”.
ClientFormatting	Specifies whether display formatting should be performed on the client in the browser.
ClientScriptable	Specifies whether client-side JavaScript can interact with the control.
ClientValidation	Specifies whether validation is performed on the client in the browser.
DataWindowObject	Specifies the name of the DataWindow object to load in the control (set the LibraryList property before setting DataWindowObject).
DisplayOnly	Specifies that the DataWindow object cannot be used for data entry.
GenerateDDDWFrames	Specifies whether drop-down DataWindows are generated using IFrames or HTML SELECT elements. See “Using a drop-down DataWindow”.
GraphConfigurations	Specifies how graphs are rendered in a WebDataWindowControl. See “Rendering graphs”.
HorizontalScrollBar, VerticalScrollBar	Specifies whether scroll bars display on the WebDataWindowControl. For more information, see “RowsPerPage and scroll bars”.
JavaScriptConfigurations	Specifies whether JavaScript for common tasks is embedded in the rendered DataWindow or associated internal files, or deployed in separate static files. See “Generating JavaScript for common management tasks”.
LibraryList	Specifies the list of libraries in which the control searches for DataWindow objects.
ObjectLinks	Specifies generated hyperlinks for objects in the DataWindow object. See “Creating hyperlinks”.
PageNavigationBarSettings	Specifies the type of navigation bar to display (with next and previous buttons, numbered pages, or an edit box or drop-down list) and other properties of the page navigation bar. See “Page navigation bars”.
PagingMethod	Specifies how paging is handled. See “Paging methods”.
RenderFormat	Specifies the format—XML, XHTML, or HTML—in which the DataWindow object is rendered. For which format to use, see “XML, XHTML, and HTML formats”.
RowsPerPage	Specifies how many rows display on each page. For more information, see “RowsPerPage and scroll bars”.
XmlConfigurations	Specifies the XHTML template to use for XML and XHTML Web DataWindows, the path where automatically generated files are saved, and optional SessionSpecific and SecurelyInline properties. For more information, see “Configuring XML”.

**Table 9-3: Properties that return information about the WebDataWindowControl**
Property	Description
ClientObjectName	Read-only property that specifies the name of the client-side Web DataWindow control.
ColumnCount	Returns the number of columns in the DataWindow object, excluding computed columns.
CurrentPage	Returns the number of the current page in the DataWindow object.
CurrentRow	Returns the number of the current row in the DataWindow object.
DataSourceType	Returns the type of the data source of the DataWindow object (SQL SELECT, stored procedure, external, or unbound).
DataWindowStyle	Returns the presentation style of the DataWindow object.
DeletedCount	Returns the number of rows that have been marked for deletion in the DataWindow object.
FilteredCount	Returns the number of rows not included in the primary buffer because of the application of filter criteria.
ModifiedCount	Returns the number of rows that have been modified in the DataWindow object.
PageCount	Returns the total number of pages in the DataWindow object.
PrintProperties	Returns an instance of the PrintProperties class that describes properties associated with printing the DataWindow object.
RowCount	Returns the number of rows in the DataWindow object.
Syntax	Returns the syntax that describes the DataWindow object.