Ok I have to bug you one more time .. I have put your code in .... now the question is how do I get the value now?
I tried this:
   Label1.Text = objDataGridItem.Cells(3).Controls(1).
BUT there is no Value property or Text proerty to get the value.
Is there something I am doing wrong or missing?

Thanks again .. !!!!!
Jim

Remember that objDataGridItem.Cells(3).Controls(1) returns you a control. You need to ask for a specific property of the control. Usually you just want to ask for the Text property of that control...

    Label1.Text = objDataGridItem.Cells(3).Controls(1).Text

Otherwise, you might want access to the checked state...for example:

If objDataGridItem.Cells(3).Controls(1).Checked Then
    'Do something here
End If

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

Hello and thanks again...

I have tried what you suggested, however I do not have access to those properties( do no show on intellsense)
I can do something like this:
Label1.Text = objDataGridItem.Cells(3).Controls(1).UniqueID.ToSt ring

not sure why I cannot get the text or value?????

Any Ideas?

The Controls() collection returns a "Control". Control doesn't have the specific properties that you are looking for so you always need to convert the Control to the specific control type that you expect to find:

Label1.Text = CType(objDataGridItem.Cells(3).Controls(1), RadioButton).UniqueID.ToString

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

Thank you!!!! That works!!!!

One last question I hope, now that I have the radio button selected, I need the ID of the row that I just clicked or I can use the DataKeys collection. How can I send the row index and get the value of the ID column (the first column) or use it to use the datakeys collection .. dg1.DataKeys.Item(x) ?

Thank you so much...

Here's the trick from before....

If you built your handler like I had posted earlier in the thread, you have something like this...

Public Sub checkBoxHandler(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
    Dim objRadioList As RadioButtonList = CType(sender, RadioButtonList)
    Dim objDataGridItem As DataGridItem = CType(objRadioList.Parent.Parent, DataGridItem)
End Sub

Once you have the DataGridItem object, you can get whatever you need with regards to the datagrid or that particular item.

Gets the datagrid row index of this item:
    objDataGridItem.ItemIndex

Gets you the value from the first column:
    objDataGridItem.Cells(0).Text
Change 0 to whatever the column index is for your "ID" column.

Peter
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Peter,

THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY MUCH!!!!! Seriously, I cannot thank you enough. This works great, and I think it will solve what I need to do. I have been trying for days. I have learned a lot and appreciate it very much. YOu really have no idea. I hope I can e-mail you in the future if I have questions, I don't mean to be a pest, but you really know what you are doing. Mine is [email protected]

Again Thank You!!!

Ah shucks...

Glad I could help. Working with non standard elements in a datagrid is a bit tricky. Believe me, it took some time to figure that out on my own.

Peter

Ah you ripper planoie! That code works a treat! I dont completely understand it! But I will play around with it a bit more and get a better understanding of it.

But! The best bit is it works for me perfectly! Thank you very much for your post!

Regards,
Euan

Hello!,
I tried on tree different objects within ItemTemplate,including a Button,a DropDownList,a CheckBox,I figured out that only Buttons Object could fire off DataGrid_ItemCommand event but others cant!!!??
so for a CheckBox(RadioButtonList) we have to declare a method as peter mentioned ,like below
(the disadvantage of this way is that it should not be declared as private)

Public Sub checkBoxHandler(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
    Dim objRadioList As RadioButtonList = CType(sender, RadioButtonList)
    Dim objDataGridItem As DataGridItem = CType(objRadioList.Parent.Parent, DataGridItem)
End Sub

but for Button objects we can use DataGrid_ItemCommand event simply

//C# syntax
//this not work,I just want to represent my meaning
private void DataGrid1_ItemCommand(object source, System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridCommandEventArgs e)
{
DataGridItem objDataGridItem=e.Item;
//instead of Dim objDataGridItem As DataGridItem = CType(objRadioList.Parent.Parent, DataGridItem)
((ourDesiredWebControl)e.Item.FindControl("I D of ourDesiredWebControl"))
//instead of Dim objRadioList As RadioButtonList = CType(sender, RadioButtonList)
}

I'm looking for a way could solve this problem ....
(I dont know why a CheckBox cant fire off DataGrid1_ItemCommand but a Button can????!!!!)

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Mehdi.:)