Create nested checkboxes in asp.net 2.0

Question

Whats is the best method to create nested checkboxlists in ASP.net?

Should I be using a datagrid? Should I be using a treeview with checkboxes enabled?

I have the data I need in a datatable, and would like to loop through through it to create a checkboxlist with a nested chechboxlist for each parent checkbox.

Cheers!

Answer 1

I've never been a fan of grids, instead, I use repeaters/listviews and for each row I have a UserControl that is responsible for showing the row data, and further repeaters for sub-data.

Tiny example:

<asp:repeater id... runat...>
    <itemtemplate>
        <uc1:MyRowControl id... runat... OnSomeEvent='MyRowHandler' Model='<%# (MySubData)Container.DataItem %>'
    </itemtemplate>
</asp:repeater>

and so on internally. Events is easy to handle when you do like this.