Question

I have some code for my FormView that fires on the DataBound event. Unfortunately (for what I’m doing, anyway) it fires the same whether it’s first rendering the page or if I just clicked Edit. I need it to do a few things differently if it’s being run on the ItemTemplate verses the EditItemTemplate. My searches on the subject have thus far been fruitless. Is there a simple way to do something along the lines of if(IsEditItemTemplate) ?

Answer 1

FormView.CurrentMode is your friend

More explanation here

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From the quoted site:

Mode                   Description
FormViewMode.Edit      The FormView control is in edit mode, which allows the 
                       user to update the values of a record.
FormViewMode.Insert    The FormView control is in insert mode, which allows the 
                       user to add a new record to the data source.
FormViewMode.ReadOnly  The FormView control is in read-only mode, which is the 
                       normal display mode.

Sample Code

void EmployeeFormView_OnPageIndexChanging(Object sender, FormViewPageEventArgs e)
{
    // Cancel the paging operation if the user attempts to navigate 
    // to another record while the FormView control is in edit mode. 
    if (EmployeeFormView.CurrentMode == FormViewMode.Edit)
    {
        e.Cancel = true;
        MessageLabel.Text = 
          "Please complete the update before navigating to another record.";
    }
}