GridView, HyperLinkFIeld and FILE:// URLs
GridView, HyperLinkFIeld and FILE:// URLs
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I was helping a friend out this evening trying to get a simple GridView working with a HyperLinkField from a database result and we ran into an interesting security feature that people might run into:
If you add a HyperLinkField to a GridView’s Columns to allow a hyperlink in a column (pretty standard), it will create hyperlinks unless the URL starts with something other than http:// and https://. In our case, his DB has an URL of:
FILE://\somemachine\someshare\somefile.txt
Because it was a full URL but didn’t start with http or https, it didn’t show the link. Change it to:
\somemachine\someshare\somefile.txt
If you’re interested, there was a Bug Report filed and MS explained why they did it:
