:)Hello,

I have designed a GridView with two columns. One is ButtonField type which is bound with "Customer_Name" field and second BoundColumn type with "Company" field.

I want to store text of cell of ButtonField column of any row. My code is as below.

private void CustomersGridView_RowCommand(Object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.CommandName == "Select")
  {
    int index = Convert.ToInt32(e.CommandArgument);
    GridViewRow selectedRow = CustomersGridView.Rows[index];
    string strValue = selectedRow.Cells[1].Text;

    Response.Write(strValue);
    //As above line returns the text of column 2. Here I want to return text of column 1. How?????
   }
}

Please give me the solution. Thanks.:)

Hi there,

Maybe I am missing something, but shouldn't you just change this:

 string strValue = selectedRow.Cells[1].Text;


to this:

 string strValue = selectedRow.Cells[0].Text;

This gets the text from the first cell.

If that doesn't help, can you elaborate a bit about what you're trying to accomplish?

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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I already have tried following

string strValue = selectedRow.Cells[0].Text; but it did not work.

I just want to store text of cell of "Customer_Name" column in a variable, when I click on any cell from the ButtonField column. I don't want to use hidden column for that.

Can you define "did not work"? What do you get?

What exactly are you trying to do? Do you want to get the text on the button?

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004
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I have a GridView like following. Column 1 is ButtonField, 2 is BoundField.

Customer Company
----------- ------------
Mike Company1
Tom Company2
Jack Company3
... ....

Since "Customer" column is obtained by binding data to a ButtonField type column. As I click on "Tom", I want to store the text "Tom" in a variable.

If I write: string strValue = selectedRow.Cells[0].Text;
It returns blank string as strValue ="". Which I don't want.
I want to get some how,

strValue="Tom"

If I take a hidden TemplateField type column and write
strValue=((Label)selectedRow.Cells[2].Controls[1]).Text;
It gives me what I want, but in a GridView with 20 columns I don't want to do like this.

Right, I see.

If it's a button (a LinkButton or a normal Button), you should be able to use FIndControl to find the button and then get its text, like this (untested)

LinkButton myButton = selectedRow.FindControl("NameOfButton") as LinkButton;

if (myButton != null)
{
  custName = myButton.Text;
}

Instead of using FindControl,

  selectedRow.Cells[0].Controls[0]

might work as well.

Cheers,

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004
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Wow!!! thanks. It is working fine.
Thanks again.

For the benefit of the archive of this forum, would you mind posting your final solution??

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

My final working code is as below:

private void CustomersGridView_RowCommand(Object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.CommandName == "Select")
    {
       string strValue="";
       int index = Convert.ToInt32(e.CommandArgument);
       GridViewRow selectedRow = CustomersGridView.Rows[index];
       strValue = ((LinkButton)(selectedRow.Cells[0].Controls[0])).Text;

       Response.Write(strValue);
    }
}

All thanks to Imar.

Hi nitinp: What I need is slightly different with yours, I need to get the bound field's data to a string, when user click on the Buttonfield. You said that you could get it by doing: string strValue = selectedRow.Cells[1].Text;

But I got empty string returned. Would you please let me know how you get it?