Coding a Completely Dynamic Gridview

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VB

ASP.NET

I need help getting my events set up correctly. Here's what's going on.

I have a project where I don't know the number or location of GridViews until the user selects some options. I need to do this all on one asp page.

I have figured out that I can create and populate a GridView dynamically and add it to a placeholder's controls.

<asp:PlaceHolder ID="phTimeEntryDay" runat="server"></asp:PlaceHolder>

Protected WithEvents gvTimeEntry As GridView = New GridView()
phTimeEntryDay.Controls.Add(gvTimeEntry)

I have added the edit and delete commands using code:

Dim cColumn As New CommandField

cColumn.ButtonType = ButtonType.Link
cColumn.CancelText = "Cancel"
cColumn.UpdateText = "Update"
cColumn.EditText = "Edit"
cColumn.DeleteText = "Delete"
cColumn.ShowEditButton = True
cColumn.ShowDeleteButton = True
cColumn.ShowCancelButton = True

gvTimeEntry.Columns.Add(cColumn)

This does set up the correct postback javascript events, but nothing happens when I click the links and the page is posted back.

In another project where I created the gridview at design-time, I can't find any code created to handle the events that I can copy to my project that does everything at run-time.

<asp:GridView ID="GridViewTimeSheet" runat="server" AllowSorting="True" AutoGenerateColumns="False"
    DataKeyNames="EmpPerNo,FromDate,ToDate,EntrySequence" DataSourceID="SqlDataSourcetimeEntry"
    ShowFooter="True" EmptyDataText="No Data Available.">
    <Columns>
        <asp:CommandField ShowDeleteButton="True" ShowEditButton="True" />
...

The only complete example I've found uses DataGrid in C# instead of GridView and there are enough differences in DataGrid and GridView that I can't adapt it completely.

Examples in VB or C# are fine if you have some.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bryan Lee