Hi, I'm a newbie and I'm looking for some help.  I'm programming in VB.Net.

I have a simple gridview and when the user hits the Edit link, the gridview 
changes to edit mode.  I replaced the Textboxes with labels and I turn off 
the Update command because I want to write my own update command.  I can not 
figure out how to pull the value from a cell in the row the user hit Edit 
on.

Example: User hits edit on row 10 and the value I want to pull in in column 
5 and is a Label with the ID of AnswerID.  How do I get that value.  This is 
what I've tried and it didn't work.

Gridview.findcontrol("AnswerID").tostring


Thanks!

pvong wrote:

> Hi, I'm a newbie and I'm looking for some help.  I'm programming in
> VB.Net.
> I have a simple gridview and when the user hits the Edit link, the
> gridview changes to edit mode.  I replaced the Textboxes with labels
> and I turn off the Update command because I want to write my own
> update command.  I can not figure out how to pull the value from a
> cell in the row the user hit Edit on.
>
> Example: User hits edit on row 10 and the value I want to pull in in
> column 5 and is a Label with the ID of AnswerID.  How do I get that
> value.  This is what I've tried and it didn't work.
>
> Gridview.findcontrol("AnswerID").tostring


Gridview.Rows(GridView.EditIndex).Cells(5).FindControl("AnswerID").ToString()

Note that column 5 is the sixth column here (starts from 0).

-- 

Riki

Thanks for replying.  To test this, I created another label (Results) 
outside of the gridview to show the value to make sure it works.  When I do 
this,  Results shows this error message.

System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label


"Riki"  wrote in message 
news:OBvQhe31HHA.5980@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> pvong wrote:
>> Hi, I'm a newbie and I'm looking for some help.  I'm programming in
>> VB.Net.
>> I have a simple gridview and when the user hits the Edit link, the
>> gridview changes to edit mode.  I replaced the Textboxes with labels
>> and I turn off the Update command because I want to write my own
>> update command.  I can not figure out how to pull the value from a
>> cell in the row the user hit Edit on.
>>
>> Example: User hits edit on row 10 and the value I want to pull in in
>> column 5 and is a Label with the ID of AnswerID.  How do I get that
>> value.  This is what I've tried and it didn't work.
>>
>> Gridview.findcontrol("AnswerID").tostring
>
> Gridview.Rows(GridView.EditIndex).Cells(5).FindControl("AnswerID").ToString()
>
> Note that column 5 is the sixth column here (starts from 0).
>
> -- 
>
> Riki
> 

pvong wrote:

> Thanks for replying.  To test this, I created another label (Results)
> outside of the gridview to show the value to make sure it works. When I do 
> this,  Results shows this error message.
>
> System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label


Gridview.Rows(GridView.EditIndex).Cells(5).FindControl("AnswerID").ToString()
produces the name of the control.

To get the content, use (VB.NET)
CType(Gridview.Rows(GridView.EditIndex).Cells(5).FindControl("AnswerID"),Label).Text
In C#:
((Label)Gridview.Rows(GridView.EditIndex).Cells(5).FindControl("AnswerID")).Text

-- 

Riki

Perfect!  Thanks!
"Riki"  wrote in message 
news:eyNtQI41HHA.5772@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> pvong wrote:
>> Thanks for replying.  To test this, I created another label (Results)
>> outside of the gridview to show the value to make sure it works. When I 
>> do this,  Results shows this error message.
>>
>> System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label
>
> Gridview.Rows(GridView.EditIndex).Cells(5).FindControl("AnswerID").ToString()
> produces the name of the control.
>
> To get the content, use (VB.NET)
> CType(Gridview.Rows(GridView.EditIndex).Cells(5).FindControl("AnswerID"),Label).Text
> In C#:
> ((Label)Gridview.Rows(GridView.EditIndex).Cells(5).FindControl("AnswerID")).Text
>
> -- 
>
> Riki
>