600 field form

9 Dec 2004 3:58 PM

savsol

Hi!
I've a large form containing 600 fields (mix of textbox, checkbox,
radiobuttons) i've broken the form in 10 parts (more or less with same
number of fields) using web control, so if you press a button a
particular part (1 of 10) will be loaded.

My problem is how to save these part-forms into xml and retrieve when
user come back to that part of form, he can also edit it.

Could anyone guide me to the right direction, with article, tutorial or
hint.
Thanks!

9 Dec 2004 4:12 PM

W.G. Ryan eMVP

You can serialize the DataSet at any time by using the WriteXML Method of
it. If you store the dataset in Session state for instance, you can access
it throughout the app regardless of what page your on. So you can check
the session variable and if it's null - hit the db and retrieve the data.
However, as soon as you navigate off the first form you can save the dataset
in session state and on load - you can check this variable and if the data
is present, use it to populate the values.

--
W.G. Ryan, MVP

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"savsol" <sav***@savtech.net> wrote in message
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> Hi!
> I've a large form containing 600 fields (mix of textbox, checkbox,
> radiobuttons) i've broken the form in 10 parts (more or less with same
> number of fields) using web control, so if you press a button a
> particular part (1 of 10) will be loaded.
>
> My problem is how to save these part-forms into xml and retrieve when
> user come back to that part of form, he can also edit it.
>
> Could anyone guide me to the right direction, with article, tutorial or
> hint.
> Thanks!
>