Question

I want to hide ID column in my GridView, I knew the code

GridView1.Columns[0].Visible = false;

but the surprise was that my count property for my GridView columns is 0 !!! while I can see data in the GridView, so any ideas?

Thank you,

Update:

here is the complete code for the method which populate the GridView

public DataSet GetAllPatients()
{
    SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(this.ConnectionString);

    String sql = "SELECT [ID],[Name],[Age],[Phone],[MedicalHistory],[Medication],[Diagnoses] FROM [dbo].[AwadyClinc_PatientTbl]order by ID desc";

    SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(sql, connection);

    SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(command);

    DataSet ds = new DataSet();

    da.Fill(ds);

    return ds;

}

Answer 1

GridView.Columns.Count will always be 0 when your GridView has its AutoGenerateColumns property set to true (default is true).

You can explicitly declare your columns and set the AutoGenerateColumns property to false, or you can use this in your codebehind:

GridView.Rows[0].Cells.Count

to get the column count once your GridView data has been bound, or this:

protected void GridView_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    e.Row.Cells[index].Visible = false;
}

to set a column invisible using your GridView’s RowDataBound event.