need help with getting selected row values in a GridView

[tperri]

Just started to mess around with these -

I have a bunch of TemplateColumns in my table, not bound columns, and when I select a row, I need to extract the value out of Cell[2] - but when I try, I'm getting Empty string

?myGridView.Rows[0].Cells[0].Text
""

I'm supposing I'm having this difficulty because these aren't bound columns and I'm doing some manual text formatting on the data in them. How do I go about getting their values if this is the case?

Thanks for the help in advance

 

[onpnt]

how are you filling the Grid and at what point are you trying to access it tperri?



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[tperri]

filling with a SqlDataSource -

I'm not sure what the best time to access it is - I want to when the Row is selected with a select button. OnRowCommand on OnSelectedChanged works for me (or anything else really) - I just wanna be able to grab that text.

 

[onpnt]

hmmm...I'm guessing you have the enable selection checked so you have the select links. In that case you would return an empty string if you did

myGridView.Rows[0].Cells[0].Text

sense I do not believe you can select the "select" text.

I'm guessing you may want

myGridView.Rows[0].Cells[1].Text

Then again it is late ;-) I could be dreaming again


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[tperri]

I am getting an empty string for all cells in my rows.

 

[onpnt]

Are you hiding the columns at all by using the visibilty value? Sorry, I'm running low on my knowledge at this point.


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[tperri]

Nope. I was thinking maybe I need to put my values into a label and then get refernce to that label and extract it that way

 

[onpnt]

as long as the values are showing in the grid there should be no reason you can't refer to them. Kind seems like it would defeat the purpose of the grid

If you do something in the RowDataBound event can you see the rows loading at all?

something like

    protected void GridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Response.Write(myGridView.Rows.Count);
    }

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[tperri]

yes the rows are loading - i see my data just fine in the grid

 

[onpnt]

edit
GridView1 --> myGridView


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[onpnt]

So if you check Enable selection in the smart tag of the grid add this

    protected void myGridView_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
Response.Write(myGridView.Rows[myGridView.SelectedIndex].Cells[2].Text);
    }

to your code and then the

OnSelectedIndexChanged="myGridView_SelectedIndexChanged"

to the grid tag along with

%@ Page Language="C#" EnableEventValidation="false" AutoEventWireup="true"  CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" debug="true" %>

renaming the page as needed.

what shows above the grid when you click a select link next to a row in the grid.


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[ca8msm]

Can you paste the GridView details?


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