Get a gridview cell value by column name

[dgerdner]

I have a gridview bound to a sqldatasource. The gridview has several columns corresondence to the database column names. However, the only way I've found to grab the value from one of those columns is by knowing the cell index:

GridViewRow gRow = GridView1.Rows[iRow];
TableCell tc = gRow.Cells[14];

Certainly there must be a way I can refer to it by its column name rather than cell index, is there not?

 

[emblewembl]

I think this is what you are looking for:

dataGridView.Columns[e.ColumnIndex].Name == "ColumnName"

or

DataGridViewCell cell = this.dataGridView[e.ColumnIndex, e.RowIndex];


I hope that helps!


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[dgerdner]

It looks as if you're referring to code in one of the events is that what the "e" variable means?

I'm really looking to do something like this:

sring strFirstName = Grid1.Rows[3].Cells["FirstName"]

where I find a column by it's column name rather than it's Cell index.