Question

In this GridView, I want to disable all the CheckBox in the GridView during the View Mode.
I can disable the GridView Row cells like

foreach (GridViewRow GVR in gvPODetails.Rows)
    {
        GVR.Cells[1].Enabled =          
        GVR.Cells[11].Enabled = false;
    }

But I dont know how to disable the checkbox in the HeaderTemplate of the Template Field. How to do this?

Answer 1

Recipe:

1. Handle OnRowDataBound on your GridView
2. Detect whether you are iterating through the header by using e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.Header and get a reference to your checkbox control using e.Row.FindControl(checkBoxID)
3. Set the Enabled property to False