Header style of datagrid to bold

[Ashish_26]

Header style of datagrid not changed to bold for a column if i put sort expression="columnname", any idea how to make the header to bold and make the font to arial.

Thanks

[postmaster]

Did you try Property builder for datagrid?

http://www.programmingknowledge.com/

[sbaudry]

It's been a very long time since the question, but as I searched a lot and did not find any answers, I will post what I've done to solve that subject.

I'm not sure that it's the easiest solution or that it is very optimized but it works.

Public Sub MyList_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DataGridItemEventArgs) Handles myList.ItemDataBound

If myList.AllowSorting = True And e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Header Then
            For Each dgc As DataGridColumn In myList.Columns
                If dgc.SortExpression = ViewState("sortColumn").ToString() Then
                    For Each tc As TableCell In e.Item.Cells
                        If tc.Controls.Count > 0 Then
                            If CType(tc.Controls(0), LinkButton).Text = dgc.HeaderText Then
                                tc.Font.Bold = True
                                Exit For
                            End If
                        End If
                    Next
                    Exit For
                End If
            Next
        End If        
End Sub

    Private Sub MyList_SortCommand(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As DataGridSortCommandEventArgs) _
        Handles myList.SortCommand

        If (ViewState("sortColumn").ToString() = e.SortExpression) Then
            If ViewState("sortOrder").ToString() = "Desc" Then
                ViewState("sortOrder") = "Asc"
            Else
                ViewState("sortOrder") = "Desc"
            End If
        Else
            ViewState("sortColumn") = e.SortExpression
            ViewState("sortOrder") = "Asc"
        End If

        BindGrid()
    End Sub