The following DataGrid has 2 BoundColumns with Visible set to false.

If I was using a ButtonColumn instead of a HyperLinkColumn, I could access 

these variables in a custom event that would be fired by the ButtonColumn 

Click.



Shouldn't you be able to bind more than one item to the querystring of a 

HyperLinkColumn. Instead of using DataNavigateUrlFormatString="form.aspx?

action=Edit&ID={0}" 



wouldn't it be nice if it automatically bound all BoundColumn's to the 

query string.

<!-- code that i wish would work -->

  <asp:BoundColumn DataField="ID" Visible="false" />

  <asp:BoundColumn DataField="Title" Visible="false" />

  <asp:HyperLinkColumn 

       NavigateUrl="form.aspx"

       DataTextField="Title" />

wouldn't it be nice if this resulted in 

<a href="form.aspx?ID=value&Title=value"> or better yet it would actually 

POST to the url form.aspx sending ID & Title. of course you would need to 

be able to add additional hidden parameters that were not part of the 

DataGrid like action=Edit etc...







<!-- code below works --->

<asp:DataGrid 

     id="list" 

     runat="server" 

     AutoGenerateColumns="false" 

     ShowHeader="false">

 <Columns>

  <asp:BoundColumn DataField="ID" Visible="false" />

  <asp:BoundColumn DataField="Title" Visible="false" />

	 

  <asp:HyperLinkColumn 

       DataNavigateUrlField="ID" 

       DataNavigateUrlFormatString="form.aspx?action=Edit&ID={0}" 

       DataTextField="Title" />

		   

 </Columns>

</asp:DataGrid>