Populate a TreeView Control C#

Populating a TreeView control in a windows application using SQL and C# is quite straightforward.

Create a self referencing table, lets call it myTable, quite orginal don't you think? ;)

 
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[myTable](
	[ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
	[title] [varchar](255) NOT NULL,
	[parentID] [int] NULL,
 CONSTRAINT [PK_myTable] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED 
(
	[ID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
 

Insert some hierarchal data.

 
SET IDENTITY_INSERT myTable ON
GO
 
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(1,'Microsoft', NULL)
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(2,'C#', 1)
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(3,'VB.net', 1)
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(4,'Open Source', NULL)
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(5,'Python',	4)
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(6,'Ruby', 4)
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(7,'PHP', 4)
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(8,'Perl', 4)
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(9,'Java', 4)
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(10,'LinQ', 2)
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(11,'5.2', 7)
INSERT INTO myTable(ID, title, parentID) VALUES(12,'4.4', 7)
 
GO
SET IDENTITY_INSERT myTable OFF
GO
 

I assume in my code example that the root parent node equals 0, hence when returning results from SQL like in the stored procedure, I use the ISNULL method to return 0 from a NULL.

You can just define a root value as well...

 
CREATE PROCEDURE viewMyTable
AS
BEGIN
	SELECT ID, title, ISNULL(parentID, 0) AS parentID
	FROM myTable
END
 

Add a same table key contraint.

 
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[myTable]  WITH CHECK ADD  CONSTRAINT [FK_myTable_myTable] FOREIGN KEY([parentID])
REFERENCES [dbo].[myTable] ([ID])
GO
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[myTable] CHECK CONSTRAINT [FK_myTable_myTable]
 


  • In your windows application, drag and drop a treeview control onto your form.
  • Populate a DataTable with your stored procedure.
Pass your TreeNodeCollection, the parentID you wish to start with and DataTable to the following method: eg. PopulateTreeView(SomeTreeView.Nodes, 0, SomeDataTable);

 
protected void PopulateTreeView (TreeNodeCollection parentNode, int parentID, DataTable folders)
{   
    foreach (DataRow folder in folders.Rows)
    {
        if (Convert.ToInt32(folder["parentID"]) == parentID)
        {
            String key = folder["ID"].ToString();
            String text = folder["title"].ToString();
            TreeNodeCollection newParentNode = parentNode.Add(key, text).Nodes;
            PopulateTreeView(newParentNode, Convert.ToInt32(folder["ID"]), folders);                    
        }
    }
}
 

If everything went according to plan, you'll end up with something like this:






Comments

Thank you man .. I've been working on this for a while now and you just saved my time .. KISSES


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thank's this is work


Glad you came right btw the code in this link is actually ASP.net based http://www.cstruter.com/blog/264


I got it to work from this link: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread118395.html.


I'm using asp.net. How do you implement the aspx side? Many tks again.


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Have a look at this link: http://www.cstruter.com/blog/264


Compile ok with your suggestion, but I now have problem calling/referencing from aspx. Can you share your others (perhaps better) examples? Many tks again for sharing. I've been searching days for this.


Hi there, in which Namespaces is your "TreeNodeCollection" - e.g. are you using the one from the ASP.net classes or the one for windows forms? In ASP.net you'd do something like this: TreeNode newNode = new TreeNode(text, key); parentNode.Add(newNode); I've got other (perhaps better) examples of how to achieve this though


Compile error: "No overload for method 'Add' takes '2' argument for TreeNodeCollection newParentNode = parentNode.Add(key,text).Nodes; Help please!


Supet

Super


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