Question

Using ASP.NET 3.5 ListView control.

I would like to capture the value of my table id from the currently edited row of a ListView.

A ItemEditing event has been added to the ListView.
The only value available in this event is e.NewItemIndex.
This returns 0 if the first row of the current page of the ListView is being edited.

How do I convert this 0 into the actual table id (label control value)?

I have tried:

table_id = Convert.ToString(ListView1.Items[e.NewEditIndex].FindControl("table_idLabel1"));

Answer 1

Can you use the DataKeyNames property instead of a label? Set the property to the name of the database field that is the key for the table, then do something like this:

table_id = ListView1.DataKeys[e.NewEditIndex].Value.ToString();