Question

I have a GridView that gets it’s data from the SQL database.
I would like to alter some of it using an external method, something like this:
SQL in:

• ID:0

Then, the altered method will be called with 0 as a parameter, and will return some string that will be shows in the GridView.

Thank you, Mark.

Answer 1

Attach a handler to the RowDataBound event. You have full control to all of the cells in the GridViewRow, and can modify the text anyway you want. Example from MSDN:

 void CustomersGridView_RowDataBound(Object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
  {

    if(e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
    {
      // Display the company name in italics.
      e.Row.Cells[1].Text = "<i>" + e.Row.Cells[1].Text + "</i>";

    }

  }

Reference at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.gridview.rowdatabound.aspx