In this blog we will know how to Display column data into rows.

Here is the Scenario

Series | Items

A | 1

A | 2

A | 3

B | 12

B | 5

C | A

C | D

I would like to display those data by series group in the front end application as following:

A: 1,2,3

B: 12,5

C: A, D

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="Display_column_data_into_rows._Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<title>Untitled Page</title>

</head>

<body>

<div>

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server">

</asp:GridView>

</div>

</form>

</body>

</html>

using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.Configuration;

using System.Data;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Security;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;

using System.Xml.Linq;

using System.Data.SqlClient;

namespace Display_column_data_into_rows

{

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page

{

string connStr = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString"].ConnectionString;

SqlCommand com;

string str;

DataSet ds;

SqlDataAdapter sqlda;

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

if (!IsPostBack)

{

bindgrid();

}

void bindgrid()

{

SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connStr);

con.Open();

str = "select Series,Substring((select(', '+ Items) from t1 t where t1.Series= t.Series order by Series,Items for xml path('')),3,1000)from t1 group by Series";

com = new SqlCommand(str, con);

sqlda = new SqlDataAdapter(com);

ds = new DataSet();

sqlda.Fill(ds, "t1");

GridView1.DataSource = ds;

GridView1.DataMember = "t1";

GridView1.DataBind();

con.Close();

}