how to add panel as a first row in gridview..?

[madhukar a]

How do you add panel as a first row in GridView?

I have tried with the below example,but am getting panel in 2nd row..but i want in 1st row.kindly help me

protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
            TableCell tCell = new TableCell();
            // create image 
            //Panel p = new Panel();
            //p.GroupingText = "Panel";
            //p.BorderWidth = 2;

            Image img = new Image();
            img.ImageUrl = "Page.jpg";
             //add the image to the cell
            tCell.Controls.Add(img);

            GridView gView = (GridView)sender;
            // set the colspan to occupy the other cells in the row
            int colSpan = gView.Columns.Count;
            tCell.Attributes["ColSpan"] = colSpan.ToString();

            GridViewRow gRow = new GridViewRow(-1, -1, DataControlRowType.DataRow, DataControlRowState.Normal);
            // add the cells to the gridviewrow
            gRow.Cells.Add(tCell);

            Table tbl = (Table)e.Row.Parent;

            // set the pagesize initially to the pagecount/2
            // in our case it is 10/2 = 5. So the first image will 
            // displayed after the 5th row.
            if (pgSize == 0)
                pgSize = GridView1.PageCount /2;

            // This step is performed so that we can display the image only after every 
            // 5, 15, 25 ,35 rows and so on ...
            // The logic is not perfect but will give you the idea
            if (Convert.ToDouble(e.Row.DataItemIndex + 1) / Convert.ToDouble(pgSize) == 1.0)
            {
                tbl.Controls.AddAt(gView.Controls[0].Controls.Count, gRow);
                // add 10 to the pgsize so that the image can be displayed
                // at rows 5, 15, 25 and so on..
                pgSize = pgSize + 10;
            }
        }
    }

[Frinavale]

GridViews are controls that display data in a tabular format.
In other words, GridViews display the data that it is bound to in a table format (with rows and columns).

If you need to display a panel with some controls in it, then I suggest you do so above the GridView. It does not make sense to try and do this within the GridView.

-Frinny