Editing data in RadGridView - c#

I am trying to edit a cell in a RadGridView which has a datasource set from data from an SQL view.
What I was hoping to do was to populate the grid from the view, allow edits then manually update the associated tables when a user click an "Update" button.
As soon as the user enters data into a cell and leaves the cell is presents with an error "Specified method is not supported".
I assume it's trying to update the datasource with the new value so I am trying to work out how to tell it not to.
I am populating the table with:
using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(mydatasource))
{
con.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select SRID, Name, Result from EditBatchResultsView where SRID = " + drpSRID.Text, con);
SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
radGridView1.DataSource = reader;
}

According to RadGrid data binding documentation, the DataSource property accepts instances of the following types:
DataSet
DataTable
DataView
Array of DataRow
Any object collection that implements these interfaces:
IListSource
IList
IEnumerable
ICustomTypeDescriptor
Based from reference inspection, SqlDataReader doesn't supported because it doesn't implement those interfaces mentioned above, hence NotSupportedException has thrown when binding SqlDataReader contents into DataSource property directly.
As a workaround, you may create new DataTable instance and fill its contents from SqlDataReader like this:
var dt = new DataTable();
using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(mydatasource))
{
con.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select SRID, Name, Result from EditBatchResultsView where SRID = " + drpSRID.Text, con);
SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
// fill DataTable contents
dt.Load(reader);
// assign DataTable as data source instead
radGridView1.DataSource = dt;
}
// DataBind goes here
Note:
The string concatenation to build SQL query may prone to SQL injection. Using parameters when passing server control value to SQL query is more recommended way:
var dt = new DataTable();
using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(mydatasource))
{
con.Open();
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("select SRID, Name, Result from EditBatchResultsView where SRID = #SRID", con);
cmd.Parameters.Add("#SRID", SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = drpSRID.Text;
SqlDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();
// fill DataTable contents
dt.Load(reader);
// assign DataTable as data source instead
radGridView1.DataSource = dt;
}
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Populate data table from data reader

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{
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Using the MySqlDataAdapter is the appropriate choice based on the sample code you provided because you are populating a DataTable and in ADO.NET DataAdapters are traditionally used to populate DataTables. A DataAdapter populates or "fills" your DataTable object.
You could also use a DataReader to populate your DataTable:
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{
conn.Open();
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conn);
MySqlDataAdapter adapter = new MySqlDataAdapter(cmd);
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adapter.Fill(dt);
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//conn.Close();// you do not need this, your using statements call Dispose and Dispose will release the connection back to the connection pool
}
You can get pointers from this code. In summary GetName is what you are looking for.
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You can also specify the columns you want and what fields they map to using the columns DataMember values.
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Code
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