retreiving cell text of bound datagrid column? 1

[NBartomeli]

I have a datagrid with 4 templated columns,

3 of the columns have controls in them, and the other one is bound to a field in the datatable I bind the grid to

after I bind the grid, it displays the data just fine, but If I loop through the item collection to try to extract the text from the cell's with the text in them , it comes back blank.

If I set the text manually in the program using Cell(0).text = "something" and then retreive it, this works fine.

Any ideas to point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

 

[Veep]

For the columns that contain controls you'll usually need to access the cell, the control and then the control property that you're after.

If you're just iterating through a DataGrid (which is what I think you're doing then here's an C# example that will give you the idea.

foreach(DataGridItem dgItem in yourDataGrid.Items)
{
string myID=dgItem.Cells[0].Text;
string someDDLID = ((DropDownList)dgItem.FindControl("ddlmyID")).SelectedItem.Value;
string someData = ((TextBox)dgItem.FindControl("txtYourTextBox")).Text;
}

It does depend on the event you are trying to access the value of the control under. If this were an update command, item_databound, item_command etc. etc... it would be more like:

string myID=e.Item.Cells[0].Text;
DropDownList ddl1 = (DropDownList)e.Item.Cells[1].FindControl("ddlmyID");
string someDDLID = ddl1.Text;
TextBox tb = (TextBox)e.Item.Cells[2].FindControl("txtYourTextBox")
string someData = tb.Text;