It could happen if we are dynamically creating DataTable and bounding it to our GridView. Searching for it if found the following information on one of the blog
The GridView (and actually, all our data controls) does not save data items across postbacks. This reduces ViewState (if the objects are even serializable) and enables garbage collection to happen and clean up your objects. So, when you click the button to post back, the GridView has not called DataBind and therefore your data item isn’t there. This is what you’ve discovered.
Selection is handled slightly differently than choosing an edit item, sorting, paging, or other functions: because those other functions require a change in the control tree or a query to the data source to get different data, they cause a DataBind to happen automatically at some point before the control renders again. You can handle RowDataBound and get your data item. Selection, however, doesn’t require new data or a different control tree (all that usually changes is the style properties on the row), so it will never call DataBind. This makes selection very fast. It also means you won’t get a DataBound or RowDataBound event unless you call DataBind yourself. So you can’t use that event to get your data item unless you call it yourself. If you need the data item, you can call DataBind yourself directly to get it, then handle OnRowDataBound, check the row index against the SelectedIndex, and get the data item.
However, this is kind of the shotgun method- it will get you what you want, but the performance has decreased because you’ve called DataBind again. Also, if the data in the data store has been modified between your calls to databind, the row index that was the selected item may now point to a different row or just different data. What data are you really looking for from the selected data item? Is it just one or two fields? If so, consider using DataKeyNames to store these fields, and then you can get to them via the DataKeys property. If you don’t want to suffer the hit to ViewState from DataKeyNames, consider getting the data directly from the controls in the row of the GridView.
So I followed the suggestion highlighted in yellow and was able to retrieve the value for the selected row.
protected void grdPropertyValues_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
GridViewRow row = grdPropertyValues.SelectedRow;
// Get the selected row index
iRownum = grdPropertyValues.SelectedIndex;
// call the method that dynamically creates the DataTable and
// bind the gridview to it
BindConferenceDayToGrid(myList, grdPropertyValues);
}
protected void grdPropertyValues_RowDataBound1(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
// getting the GridViewRow
GridViewRow row = e.Row;
// if RowType is DataRow and RowIndex is our selected row’s index
if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow && row.RowIndex == iRownum)
{
DataRowView drv = (DataRowView)e.Row.DataItem;
Response.Write(“The value we need “+drv.Row[1].ToString());
}
}
That’s it ..
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i need to display selectedrow details in gridview to a repeater control etc,
can u help me how to acheive this?
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Dear Sir,
I faced one issue,using populatingGridview after selectedIndexChanged event.
ie if the first column in gridview is checkbox and checked any checkbox in the girdview ,the check box is unchecked after refreshing.
what is needed is even after refreshing the gridview the checked checkbox should not be unchecked. or else should have alternative for populating the gridview which would not refresh all the checked checkboxes.
Expecting your reply.
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Dear Sir,
continuation of previous post,
The checkboxes in first column could be used for deleting the rows.
finding all the checked checkboxes and pressing delete button would delete all the checked rows!!.
Thanks
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I am using an asp:GridView to display data in a table.
In the code behind, I am using OleDbConnection to connect to the DB and execute the select statement. The result set is being read into OleDbDataReader. I am binding the same to the GridView by doing something like this:
newGrid.DataSource = reader; //reader is OleDbDataReader populated by executing select stmt
newGrid.DataBind();
The GridView definition in the aspx page looks like this:
But I am not getting rowselectedindexchanged event at all. I have defined the function newGrid_SelectedIndexChanged in the code behind and put a breakpoint in the same. But its not calling the function.
Need help on this asap.
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