Question

I’m following this example http://www.codeproject.com/KB/webforms/Editable_GridView.aspx to build an editable GridView control.
I have this code in my GridView:

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Negócio">
<ItemTemplate> 
    <asp:Label ID="lblNegocio" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Negocio") %>'></asp:Label> 
</ItemTemplate> 
<EditItemTemplate> 
    <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlNegocio" runat="server" /> 
</EditItemTemplate> 
<FooterTemplate> 
    <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlNewNegocio" runat="server" />
</FooterTemplate> 

Now, I’m trying to fill the dropdown in the EditItemTemplate with some dynamic values just as the example says, in the RowDataBound Event of the grid. But when I do this, the FindControl method always returns Nothing:

Protected Sub gdvRegraRotationDefault_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs) Handles gdvRegraRotationDefault.RowDataBound
If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
    Dim ddlNegocio As DropDownList = e.Row.FindControl("ddlNegocio")
End If

End Sub

If I can’t find the Dropdown I can’t load the values in it and when I’m going to edit de entry it will be empty.

Can someone help me?

Thank you (:

Answer 1

Please use the RowEditing-Event, as your DropDownList should only be shown when clicking Edit.
But first, you have to bind the GridView newly as the GridView now needs to render different controls for the edit row:

protected void gdvRegraRotationDefault_RowEditing(object sender, GridViewEditEventArgs e)
{
    gdvRegraRotationDefault.EditIndex = e.NewEditIndex;
    gdvRegraRotationDefault.DataBind();

    GridViewRow row = gdvRegraRotationDefault.Rows[e.NewEditIndex];
    DropDownList ddl = row.FindControl("ddlNegocio") as DropDownList;

    //now do databinding for DropDownList
}