Question

I have the GridView below. I am binding to a custom datasource in the code behind. It gets into the “OnRowUpdating” event just fine, but there are no NewValues or OldValues. Any suggestions as to how I can get these values?

<asp:GridView   ID="gv_Personnel" 
                        runat="server" 
                        OnRowDataBound="gv_Personnel_DataBind" 
                        OnRowCancelingEdit="gv_Personnel_CancelEdit" 
                        OnRowEditing="gv_Personnel_EditRow" 
                        OnRowUpdating="gv_Personnel_UpdateRow"
                        AutoGenerateColumns="false" 
                        ShowFooter="true" 
                        DataKeyNames="BudgetLineID"
                        AutoGenerateEditButton="true" 
                        AutoGenerateDeleteButton="true"
                        >
            <Columns>                 
                <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Level of Staff" DataField="LineDescription" />
                <%--<asp:BoundField HeaderText="Hrs/Units requested" DataField="NumberOfUnits" />--%>
                <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Hrs/Units requested">
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <%# Eval("NumberOfUnits")%>
                    </ItemTemplate>
                    <EditItemTemplate>
                        <asp:TextBox ID="tb_NumUnits" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("NumberOfUnits")%>' />
                    </EditItemTemplate>
                </asp:TemplateField>
                <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Hrs/Units of Applicant Cost Share" DataField="" NullDisplayText="0" />
                <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Hrs/Units of Partner Cost Share" DataField="" NullDisplayText="0" />
                <asp:BoundField FooterStyle-Font-Bold="true" FooterText="TOTAL PERSONNEL SERVICES:" HeaderText="Rate" DataFormatString="{0:C}" DataField="UnitPrice" />
                <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Amount Requested" ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right" FooterStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right"  FooterStyle-BorderWidth="2" FooterStyle-Font-Bold="true"/>
                <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Applicant Cost Share" ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right" FooterStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right" FooterStyle-BorderWidth="2" FooterStyle-Font-Bold="true"/>
                <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Partner Cost Share" ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right" FooterStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right" FooterStyle-BorderWidth="2" FooterStyle-Font-Bold="true"/>
                <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Total Projet Cost" ItemStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right" FooterStyle-HorizontalAlign="Right" FooterStyle-BorderWidth="2" FooterStyle-Font-Bold="true"/>
            </Columns>
        </asp:GridView>

Answer 1

Regarding on the GridView control’s
RowUpdating event problem, it is the
expected behavior because when we do
not associate GridView(or other
ASP.NET 2.0 databound control) with
DataSource control, it won’t
automatically query and fill the
parameters collection of the
updating/deleting/… events. In such
cases, we need to manually extract the
field values from the Template
control.

This is what says a Microsoft employee in here.

In that case you can do it using the ExtractValuesFromCell method to make the NewValues collection yourself.

EDIT:

I found a piece of code in the comments of this blog:

protected void OnRowEditing(object sender, GridViewEditEventArgs e)
{     
       GridView gv = (GridView)sender;
       gv.EditIndex = e.NewEditIndex;
       gv.DataBind();
       ...
}

protected void OnRowUpdating(object sender, GridViewUpdateEventArgs e)
{
   GridView gv = (GridView)sender;
   for (int i = 0; i < gv.Columns.Count; i++)
   {
      DataControlFieldCell cell = gv.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[i] as DataControlFieldCell;
      gv.Columns[i].ExtractValuesFromCell(e.NewValues, cell, DataControlRowState.Edit, true);
   }
   // now you can use NewValues collection normally
}

Havent tested it, but seems to solve the problem, let me know if it did.