Question

Is there a way to retrieve whether a Checkbox field is checked in a databound gridview in ASP.NET? I can retrieve all other cell values in a foreach loop with cell.Text. Since it is databound (to an ObjectDataSource) the columns and cells don’t have explicitly set IDs and I can’t seem to find a property that would let me know the cell contains a checkbox or just text. All cells are of type DataControlFieldCell so I can’t check based on type either. Thoughts?

EDIT:

foreach (GridViewRow row in report_gv.Rows)
{
   data += "<TR>";
   foreach (TableCell cell in row.Cells)
   {
      data += "<TD>" + cell.Text + "</TD>";
      //If this is a checkbox (bit value from the DB) cell.Text isn't going to return anything
   }
   data += "</TR>";
}

Answer 1

foreach (GridViewRow row in myGridView) {
  foreach (TableCell cell in row.Cells) {
    foreach (Control ctrl in cell.Controls) {
      if (ctrl is CheckBox) {
        CheckBox cb = (CheckBox)ctrl;
        // use cb
      } else if (cell is TextBox) {
      } else if (cell is Label) {
      }
    }
  }
}

You can expand this to process however you need.