Question

I would like to bind a list of objects to gridview. The object needs to contain a column of buttons. Some of these buttons need to be disabled depending on the data in the list.

Is it possible to generate a list of objects including the enabled or disabled buttons and simply bind to the gridview?

Answer 1

you can add button in gridview itemtemplate like this :

<asp:TemplateField>
  <ItemTemplate>
    <asp:Button ID="btn" runat="server" 
     Text="click" Enabled="<%# Eval('IsButtonEnabled') %>"/>
  </ItemTemplate> 
</asp:TemplateField>

then you can add Flag as bool variable in your datasource and set your desired values , true to enable , false to disable

Edit , for example you have datasource like this :

class YourDataSource {

public string prop1 {get;set;}
public string prop2 {get;set;}
public bool IsButtonEnabled {get;set;}
}

if IsButtonEnabled is true so button will be enabled else it will be disabled