Listview Selected Item

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Evening All,

I have come across a bit of a problem that I can't get around, I have checked online and I can't seem to find the answer I am looking for.

I have a listview that is being used a search results box, for example user enters text, clicks search button, returns results of search as a list of items in the list view.

What I am trying to do is select each item when it is clicked on and do some code on a button press. So for example in this case I want a user to click on an item in the listview, click add to profile button and the item will be added to a profile.

I have no idea how you get the selected item in a listview and I am really struggling with it. I am basically trying to create the functionality of a listbox with the added columns of a Listview.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Dan

Posted 29-Nov-12 13:30pm

DanHodgson88

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daniele.arrighi · Answer 1 · 2012-11-29T13:51:00

I'm not sure if I've got your problem in the right way, I think you just need to set an ItemCommand event handler for your listview and then set the CommandName and CommandArgument in your button (or in any other control).

ASP.NET

<asp:listview runat="server" xmlns:asp="#unknown">
        ID="TheAnimalsListView"
        OnItemCommand="TheAnimalsListView_OnItemCommand"
        DataKeyNames="TheID">
        <layouttemplate>
          [...]
        </layouttemplate>
        <itemtemplate>
              <asp:linkbutton runat="server">
                ID="SelectAnimalButton" 
                Text="Show This" 
                CommandName="ShowThis" 
                CommandArgument='<%#Eval("AnimalName")%>' />
        </asp:linkbutton></itemtemplate>
      </asp:listview>

Then, in the codebehind

C#

protected void TheAnimalsListView_OnItemCommand(object sender, ListViewCommandEventArgs e)
  {
    if (String.Equals(e.CommandName, "ShowThis"))
      {
        //Shows the image of the animal based on the AnimalName
        ShowAnimalImage(e.CommandArgument.ToString());
      }
    }
  }