Question

I have this custom CheckBoxList:

<CustomCheckBoxList runat="server" ID="ItemsCBL" DataSourceID="ItemsData"
    DataTextField="datacolumn" DataValueField="datacolumn"
    SelectedValues='<%# Bind("Items") %>' />

Where SelectedValues attribute is of type NHibernate.Collection.Generic.PersistentGenericBag<string>

How can I transform it into a GridView with same binding functionality?

<GridView runat="server" ID="ItemsAllowed" ShowFooter="false" DataSourceID="ItemsData"
 AutoGenerateColumns="false">
<Columns>
  <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="UserAllowed">
    <ItemTemplate>
      <asp:CheckBox ID="cbUserAllowed" runat="server" />
    </ItemTemplate>
  </asp:TemplateField>
  <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="ItemList">
    <ItemTemplate>
      <asp:Literal ID="litItem" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("datacolumn") %>' />
    </ItemTemplate>
  </asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
</GridView>

I need to transform it to a GridView cause I need to add one extra checkbox column.

Thanks for replies!

Answer 1

Solution was to do the two-way DataBinding manually.

Binding from DataSource on OnRowDataBound event handler.

And binding to DataSource in the parent’s control OnRowEditing event handler.

Example: ASP.NET data bind two-way, bi-directional from code behind