how to find the itemtemplate control while editing(e.commandname=="Edit") in row command

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Actually in my gridview in one column i taken itemtemplate and edittemplate as shown below

//aspx code

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<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Staff" ControlStyle-ForeColor="#3366FF" SortExpression="Staff" >

            <EditItemTemplate>
            <asp:DropDownList ID="AssignedTo" runat="server" ></asp:DropDownList>

            </EditItemTemplate>

            <ItemTemplate >
            <asp:Label ID="lblstaff" runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("Staff") %>'></asp:Label>

            </ItemTemplate>
            </asp:TemplateField>

//now i want to bind data to dropdown list in .cs according to the label text.for that i want to find the label text while editing the row in rowcommand event like below is it possible

C#

protected void GridView1_RowCommand(object sender, System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.CommandName == "Edit")
            {

                //here i want find the control of the label.text and by taking that value i will bind the data to dropdownlist 
            }
        }

Posted 15-May-13 19:41pm

ntitish

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vijay__p · Answer 1 · 2013-05-15T23:23:00

Solution 1

You can find Label control as below

C#

int index = Convert.ToInt32(e.CommandArgument);
      GridView customersGridView = (GridView)e.CommandSource;
      GridViewRow row = customersGridView.Rows[index];
Label lblstaff = row.FindControl("lblstaff") as Label;
var text = lblstaff.Text;

Posted 15-May-13 23:23pm

vijay__p

Updated 15-May-13 23:24pm

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