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Insert data from Gridview to database

In this blog we will know how to insert data from Gridview to database.

Scenario - Records will be displayed in the gridview from an xml file. Then when we click insert button all data present in the gridview will be inserted to the database.

  1. <%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="Insert_data_from_Gridview_database._Default" %>  
  2. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">  
  3. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >  
  4. <head runat="server">  
  5.     <title>Untitled Page</title>  
  6. </head>  
  7. <body>  
  8.     <form id="form1" runat="server">  
  9.     <div>  
  10.     <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text=""></asp:Label>  
  11.     <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server">  
  12.     </asp:GridView>  
  13.     <asp:Button ID="btn_insert" runat="server" onclick="btn_insert_Click"  
  14.         Text="Insert Records" />  
  15.     <asp:Button ID="btn_show" runat="server" onclick="btn_show_Click"  
  16.         style="height: 26px" Text="Show Records" />  
  17.     </div>  
  18.     </form>  
  19. </body>  
  20. </html>
  1. using System;  
  2. using System.Collections;  
  3. using System.Configuration;  
  4. using System.Data;  
  5. using System.Linq;  
  6. using System.Web;  
  7. using System.Web.Security;  
  8. using System.Web.UI;  
  9. using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;  
  10. using System.Web.UI.WebControls;  
  11. using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;  
  12. using System.Xml.Linq;  
  13. using System.Data.SqlClient;  
  14. namespace Insert_data_from_Gridview_database  
  15. {  
  16.     public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page  
  17.     {  
  18.         string connStr = ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnectionString"].ConnectionString;  
  19.         SqlCommand com;  
  20.         protected void btn_show_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)  
  21.         {  
  22.             DataSet reportData = new DataSet();  
  23.             reportData.ReadXml(Server.MapPath("student.xml"));  
  24.             GridView1.DataSource = reportData;  
  25.             GridView1.DataBind();  
  26.         }  
  27.         protected void btn_insert_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)  
  28.         {  
  29.             foreach (GridViewRow g1 in GridView1.Rows)  
  30.             {  
  31.                 SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(connStr);  
  32.                 com = new SqlCommand("insert into student(sid,sname,smarks,saddress) values ('" + g1.Cells[0].Text + "','" + g1.Cells[1].Text + "','" + g1.Cells[2].Text + "','" + g1.Cells[3].Text + "')", con);  
  33.                 con.Open();  
  34.                 com.ExecuteNonQuery();  
  35.                 con.Close();  
  36.             }  
  37.             Label1.Text = "Records inserted successfully";  
  38.         }  
  39.     }  
  40. }
Thanks for reading.
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