Step 1: Open Visual Studio and select a new project from the File menu and select the website.

Step 2: After creating successful new project drag gridview from the toolbox and drop it on the web page where you want.

After successfully drag gridview on the page you can perform many tasks such as

you can edit the format of gridview , edit columns and many more.

Here when you click on the Auto Format then following window will be appear

where you have more choice like

Now when you click on edit columns then following window will appear where you can add different types of fields

Here I am adding three template fields.

 Step 3:  Now for performing nested gridview or gridview inside gridview you can write the following   code.

         <asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False"
            
             CellPadding="4"  EnableModelValidation="True"
             ForeColor="#333333" GridLines="None" onrowcommand="GridView1_RowCommand" onrowcancelingedit="GridView1_RowCancelingEdit"
            
             >
            <AlternatingRowStyleBackColor="White"/>
            <Columns>
                 <asp:TemplateFieldHeaderText="Department_Id">
                     <EditItemTemplate>
                         <asp:TextBoxID="TextBox1"runat="server"Text='<%# Bind("did")  %>'></asp:TextBox>
                     </EditItemTemplate>
                     <ItemTemplate>
                         <asp:LabelID="Label1"runat="server"Text='<%# Bind("did")  %>'></asp:Label>
                     </ItemTemplate>
                 </asp:TemplateField>
                 <asp:TemplateFieldHeaderText="Department_Name">
                     <EditItemTemplate>
                         <asp:TextBoxID="TextBox2"runat="server"Text='<%# Bind("department")  %>'></asp:TextBox>
                     </EditItemTemplate>
                     <ItemTemplate>
                         <asp:LabelID="Label2"runat="server"Text='<%# Bind("department")  %>'></asp:Label>
                     </ItemTemplate>
                 </asp:TemplateField>
                
                 <asp:TemplateFieldHeaderText="Details">
                      <ItemTemplate>
  
                        <asp:ButtonID="btn_Show"Text="Details"runat="server"CommandName="Details"CommandArgument='<%# Container.DataItemIndex%>'/>
                        <asp:ButtonID="Cancel"Text="Cancel"runat="server"CommandName="Cancel"CommandArgument='<%# Container.DataItemIndex%>'Visible="false"/>
                      <%--child gridview with bound fields --%>
                        <asp:GridViewID="GridView2"runat="server"AutoGenerateColumns="False"
             CellPadding="4" EnableModelValidation="True"
            ForeColor="#000000"GridLines="Both">
                         <Columns>
                           <asp:BoundFieldDataField="Emp_Id"HeaderText="Emp_Id">
                           <ItemStyleWidth="20%"/>
                           </asp:BoundField>
                           <asp:BoundFieldDataField="Dep_Name"HeaderText="Dep_Name">
                           <ItemStyleWidth="20%"/>
                           </asp:BoundField>
                           <asp:BoundFieldDataField="Name"HeaderText="Name">
                           <ItemStyleWidth="20%"/>
                           </asp:BoundField>
                           <asp:BoundFieldDataField="Address"HeaderText="Address">
                           <ItemStyleWidth="20%"/>
                           </asp:BoundField>
                           <asp:BoundFieldDataField="Department"HeaderText="Department">
                           <ItemStyleWidth="20%"/>
                           </asp:BoundField>
                           <asp:BoundFieldDataField="Designation"HeaderText="Designation">
                           <ItemStyleWidth="20%"/>
                           </asp:BoundField>
                           <asp:BoundField DataField="Technology" HeaderText= "Technology" >
                           <ItemStyle Width = "20%" />
                           </asp:BoundField>
                          </Columns>
                          <EditRowStyle BackColor="#7C6F57" />
             <FooterStyle BackColor="#1C5E55" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
             <HeaderStyle BackColor="#1C5E55" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
             <PagerStyle BackColor="#666666" ForeColor="White" HorizontalAlign="Center" />
             <RowStyle BackColor="#E3EAEB" />
             <SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#C5BBAF" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#333333" />
                         </asp:GridView>
                     </ItemTemplate>
           
                 </asp:TemplateField>
             </Columns>
             <EditRowStyle BackColor="#7C6F57" />
             <FooterStyle BackColor="#1C5E55" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
             <HeaderStyle BackColor="#1C5E55" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />
             <PagerStyle BackColor="#666666" ForeColor="White" HorizontalAlign="Center" />
             <RowStyle BackColor="#E3EAEB" />
             <SelectedRowStyle BackColor="#C5BBAF" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#333333" />
         </asp:GridView>

The Deisgn of GridView as follows

After the design is complete write the following code in .cs file.

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
     protected void Page_Load(objectsender,  EventArgse)
    {
         if (!IsPostBack)
         {
             ///// bind data with parent gridview when page first time loaded
             SqlConnection con= new SqlConnection(ConnectionString.ConnString());
            con.Open();
             SqlDataAdapter da= new SqlDataAdapter();
            da.SelectCommand= newSqlCommand("select did , Department from tblDepartment", con);
             DataSet ds= newDataSet();
            da.Fill(ds);
            GridView1.DataSource=ds;
            GridView1.DataBind();
            
         }
  
    }
  
     /// <summary>
     /// This event raised when button clicked within GridView 
     /// </summary>
  
     protected void GridView1_RowCommand(objectsender,  GridViewCommandEventArgse)
    {
         /// takes the command argument row index 
         introwindex=Convert.ToInt32(e.CommandArgument.ToString());
         //// find child gridview control 
         GridView grv= (GridView)GridView1.Rows[rowindex].FindControl("GridView2");
  
         ////  text for which details display 
         Labellbl=  (Label) GridView1.Rows[rowindex].FindControl("Label2");
         GridView1.Rows[rowindex].FindControl("Cancel").Visible= false; 
        
         //// 
         if (e.CommandName=="Details")
         {
            GridView1.Rows[rowindex].FindControl("Cancel").Visible= true;   
            GridView1.Rows[rowindex].FindControl("btn_Show").Visible= false;     
             SqlConnection con= new SqlConnection(ConnectionString.ConnString());
            con.Open();
             SqlDataAdapter da= new SqlDataAdapter();
             DataSet ds= newDataSet();
             if (lbl.Text=="HR Department")
            {
                 da.SelectCommand=newSqlCommand("Select * from tblHR", con);
                da.Fill(ds);
            }
            elseif (lbl.Text=="Sales Department")
            {
                 da.SelectCommand=newSqlCommand("Select * from tblSales", con);
                da.Fill(ds);
            }
            else
            {
                 da.SelectCommand=newSqlCommand("Select * from tblTechnical", con);
                da.Fill(ds);
            }
            ////// bind data with child gridview 
            grv.DataSource=ds;
            grv.DataBind();
            grv.Visible=true;
         }
        else
         {
            //// child gridview  display false when cancel button raise event
            grv.Visible=false;
            GridView1.Rows[rowindex].FindControl("btn_Show").Visible= true;
         }
    }
  
    ///<summary>
    /// row cancel event when clicked on cancel button
    ///</summary>
  
    protectedvoidGridView1_RowCancelingEdit(objectsender, GridViewCancelEditEventArgse)
    {
  
    }
}

When you debug this code and click on details button then output will be

If you want sees all details of column Department_Name then you can see after clicking all details button.

Summary:

Here we are taking two gridview control first is parent gridview and the second one is child gridview control. Parent gridview control contains three category HR department,

Technical department, and sales department, and all the categories have some information which is showing in child gridview control when clicking on the Details button.