Question

I have a gridview which is like

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="File Name" SortExpression="FileName">
   <ItemTemplate>
     <asp:LinkButton ID="lnkname" runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("FileName") %>' CommandName='<%#Eval("FileName") %>'>
     </asp:LinkButton>

   </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
<asp:CommandField ShowDeleteButton="True" >
  <ControlStyle ForeColor="Red" />
</asp:CommandField>

Rowcommand part works well. When I click on delete, the control goes to gridview1_rowcommand instead of gridview1_rowdeleting and gives error.

How can I make this work?

Answer 1

It’s be helpful if you showed your two event handlers.

It sounds like you have a row_command method setup to use from the linkbutton. The issue is that a delete is still a row command, and that event is firing first (and your code probably expects a linkbutton command). So you would need to not do anything with that command and then the row_deleting with fire.

protected void gridview1_rowcommand(Object sender, CommandEventArgs e) {
   if(e.CommandName.ToLower() != "delete") {
      // do whatever you want to with linkbutton events
   }
}

protected void gridview1_rowdeleting(Object sender, GridViewDeleteEventArgs e) {
   // this will fire second, right before the record deletes
}