How to make DataGrid TemplateColumn ItemTemplate and EditItemTemplate the same without duplicating code?

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Currently, I have something like this:

<br /><asp:DataGrid><br />  <asp:TemplateColumn><br />    <ItemTemplate><br />      //some markup that tells us what controls to draw for ItemTemplate<br />    </ItemTemplate><br />    <EditItemTemplate><br />      //same markup as in ItemTemplate which should not be duplicated<br />    </EditItemTemplate><br />  </asp:TemplateColumn><br /></asp:DataGrid><br />

I was wondering if there was a way (either behind the scenes in C#) or in the markup itself, to make it so that we don't have to duplicate the markup. There was a thread I found for the FormView control, where we could set FormView.EditItemTemplate = FormView.ItemTemplate, but unfortunately, this is not available for the DataGrid TemplateColumn type.

Posted 1-Dec-08 8:39am

Cyrilix

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Samer Aburabie · Answer 1 · 2008-12-01T10:39:00

Greetings,
I think the thread you read already gave you the correct way ... its only a matter of casting the template column correctly then set the EditItemTemplate property to ItemTemplate property ... here is the code:

TemplateField colmun = this.GridView1.Columns[0] as TemplateField;<br />colmun.EditItemTemplate = colmun.ItemTemplate;