This post describes how to populate Treeview with database fields. People are often required to populate Treeview with database fields, and they choose different approaches to make it work. Here I am going to describe the simplest way.
Here I’ll be using SQL Server Sample Database:
Relations:
Treeview :
Public Sub GenerateTreeView()
Dim ds As New DataSet
Dim conn As New SqlConnection
Dim connString As String
Dim strQuery As String
Dim da As SqlDataAdapter
Dim dtJob As New DataTable
Dim dtEmp As New DataTable
Dim nodeJob As TreeNode
Dim nodeEmp As TreeNode
Try
connString = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("pubsConnectionString").ToString()
strQuery = "select job_id,job_desc from jobs"
da = New SqlDataAdapter(strQuery, connString)
da.Fill(dtJob)
dtJob.TableName = "Job"
ds.Tables.Add(dtJob)
strQuery = "SELECT emp_id, fname, lname, job_id FROM employee ORDER BY job_id"
da = New SqlDataAdapter(strQuery, connString)
da.Fill(dtEmp)
dtEmp.TableName = "Employee"
ds.Tables.Add(dtEmp)
'define RelationShip
ds.Relations.Add("JobEmployee", ds.Tables("Job").Columns("job_id"),
ds.Tables("Employee").Columns("job_id"))
For Each dr As DataRow In ds.Tables("job").Rows 'Parent Nodes
nodeJob = New TreeNode()
nodeJob.Value = dr("job_id")
nodeJob.Text = dr("job_desc")
nodeJob.ShowCheckBox = True
nodeJob.Expanded = False
tvSample.Nodes.Add(nodeJob)
For Each drr As DataRow In dr.GetChildRows("JobEmployee") 'Child Nodes
nodeEmp = New TreeNode()
nodeEmp.Text = drr("fname") & " " & drr("lname")
'here concating parent node value with child node value
'so that it will be easy to get the selected node value
nodeEmp.Value = drr("emp_id") & "$" & dr("job_id")
nodeEmp.ShowCheckBox = True
nodeJob.ChildNodes.Add(nodeEmp)
Next
Next
Catch ex As Exception
strQuery = Nothing
da = Nothing
conn = Nothing
connString = Nothing
Finally
End Try
End Sub
C# Code:
public void GenerateTreeView()
{
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection();
string connString = null;
string strQuery = null;
SqlDataAdapter da;
DataTable dtJob = new DataTable();
DataTable dtEmp = new DataTable();
TreeNode nodeJob;
TreeNode nodeEmp;
try {
connString =
ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["pubsConnectionString"].ConnectionString.ToString();
//Job Table Data
strQuery = "select job_id,job_desc from jobs";
da = new SqlDataAdapter(strQuery, connString);
da.Fill(dtJob);
dtJob.TableName = "Job";
ds.Tables.Add(dtJob);
//Employee Table Data
strQuery = "SELECT emp_id, fname, lname, job_id FROM employee ORDER BY job_id";
da = new SqlDataAdapter(strQuery, connString);
da.Fill(dtEmp);
dtEmp.TableName = "Employee";
ds.Tables.Add(dtEmp);
//define RelationShip
ds.Relations.Add("JobEmployee", ds.Tables["Job"].Columns["job_id"],
ds.Tables["Employee"].Columns["job_id"]);
foreach (DataRow dr in ds.Tables["job"].Rows) {
nodeJob = new TreeNode();
nodeJob.Value = dr["job_id"].ToString();
nodeJob.Text = dr["job_desc"].ToString();
nodeJob.ShowCheckBox = true;
nodeJob.Expanded = false;
tvSample.Nodes.Add(nodeJob);
foreach (DataRow drr in dr.GetChildRows("JobEmployee") ) {
nodeEmp = new TreeNode();
nodeEmp = new TreeNode();
nodeEmp.Text = drr["fname"].ToString() + drr["lname"].ToString();
nodeEmp.ShowCheckBox = true;
nodeJob.ChildNodes.Add(nodeEmp);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex) {
strQuery = null;
da = null;
conn = null;
connString = null;
}
finally {
}
}
}
In my next posts, I will write about JavaScript that will be useful to check/uncheck all the checkboxes of Treeview and how to retrieve the value of all the checked nodes server side and client side.
I hope this helps 🙂
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