Fill GridView Control with Dummy Data (ASP.NET)

Quickly Populate a GridView With Dummy Data

Maybe the database table isn’t ready yet, but you’d like to start working on a new GridView. What you need is a quick and dirty way to load up a GridView control with sample data.

Drop a GridView Control onto the .ASPX Page

<asp:GridView ID="gvExample" runat="server" />

Helper Functions

In the article Generating Random Number and String in C#, author Mahesh Chand wrote 2 random functions:

1. RandomNumber
2. RandomString

I modified them slightly by making the random variable public. This will allow us to get a fresh random number with each call.

LoadGridView

The parameters for this function are:

• columnCount: Number of columns
• rowCount: Number of rows
• useNumeric: Use Numeric Data (true/false)
• rowLength: Length of Text inside rows
• minNumber: Lower range of numeric data
• maxNumber: Upper range of numeric data

created: July 23, 2007