Hi Imar,

I'm using the CMS Project of yours as a base and decided to add a nested Gridview inside an itemtemplate to do a Child Parent type of display with Content and Content Types.

What i'm having problems with is that i can't seem to get access to the nested gridviews events programmically. Here is the example code below.

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" DataKeyNames="Id"
    DataSourceID="sdsContentTypes" AutoGenerateColumns="False"
    CssClass="NestedGridView1Style" Width="100%">

      <SelectedRowStyle CssClass="Green" />
      <HeaderStyle CssClass="Pink" />
      <Columns>

      <asp:TemplateField>
        <HeaderTemplate>
          <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">

            <tr>
              <td width="2%">&nbsp;</td>
              <td width="38%"> Page</td>
              <td width="30%"> Sort Order</td>
              <td width="30%"> Active</td>
            </tr>
          </table>
        </HeaderTemplate>
        <ItemTemplate>
          <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%">

            <tr>
              <td width="2%"><asp:ImageButton CommandName="Select" CommandArgument="<%# Container.DataItemIndex %>" ToolTip="Click here to toggle the display of the orders list for this customer" ID="selectBtn" ImageUrl="../Images/expand.gif" runat="server" /></td>
              <td width="38%"><asp:Label ID="lblDescription" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Description") %>'></asp:Label>
              </td>
              <td width="30%"><asp:Label ID="lblSortOrder" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("SortOrder") %>'></asp:Label>
              </td>
              <td width="30%"><asp:Label ID="lblVisible" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Visible") %>'></asp:Label>
              </td>
            </tr>

            <tr>
              <td colspan="4">
              <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
                  <tr>

                    <td align="center">
                    <asp:GridView ID="ChildGridView1" runat="server"
                        DataKeyNames="Id" Visible="False" DataSourceID="sdsContent"
                        AutoGenerateColumns="False" CssClass="GridView1ChildStyle" Width="90%">
                        <SelectedRowStyle CssClass="Blue" />
                        <HeaderStyle CssClass="Header" />
                        <Columns>
                        <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Title">
                          <ItemTemplate>
                            <asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("Title") %>'></asp:Label>
                          </ItemTemplate>
                        </asp:TemplateField>
                        <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Creation Date">
                          <ItemTemplate>
                            <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("CreateDateTime", "{0:d}") %>'></asp:Label>
                          </ItemTemplate>
                        </asp:TemplateField>
                        <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Updated Date">
                          <ItemTemplate>
                            <asp:Label ID="Label4" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("UpdateDateTime", "{0:d}") %>'></asp:Label>
                          </ItemTemplate>
                        </asp:TemplateField>
                        <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Active">
                          <ItemTemplate>
                              <asp:Image runat="server" ID="Image1" ImageUrl='<%# activeChk(Eval("Visible").toString) %>' />
                          </ItemTemplate>
                        </asp:TemplateField>
                         <asp:ButtonField ButtonType="Image" CommandName="Select" ImageUrl="../Images/view.gif" />
                         <asp:ButtonField ButtonType="Image" CommandName="Edit" ImageUrl="../Images/edit.gif" />
                         <asp:ButtonField ButtonType="Image" CommandName="Delete" ImageUrl="../Images/delete.gif" />
                        </Columns>
                      </asp:GridView>                       </td>
                  </tr>
                </table></td>
            </tr>
          </table>
            <asp:SqlDataSource ID="sdsContent" runat="server"
            ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:CMS %>"
             SelectCommand="Select * From cms_Content where ContentTypeId = @ContentTypeId"
             OnUpdating="">
               <SelectParameters>
                    <asp:Parameter Name="ContentTypeId" DefaultValue="0" Type="Int32" />
               </SelectParameters>
            </asp:SqlDataSource>
        </ItemTemplate>
      </asp:TemplateField>
      </Columns>
    </asp:GridView>

The gridview in Bold is what i can't seem to get access to the events programmically.

Any help would be appreciated.
Adam

Hi Adam,

Because the controls are nested, you can't directly access them code behind and wire up event handlers using the Handles keyword.

Instead, write explicit code. E.g. in the GridView write something like OnYourEventName="YourEventHandler" and then create a method in the code behind called YourEventHandler with a signature that matches a handler you would normally use.

Does this help?

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
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That helps alot Imar thanks!