Question

What I’m trying to accomplish is when I click a button in my gridview, the values of that particular row must be displayed in textlabels lblID, lblName, …
I just don’t have a clue how to do it.
This is the code of my sqldatasource:

<asp:SqlDataSource ID="srcProd" runat="server"  
ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnDB %>"   
ProviderName="<%$ ConnectionStrings:ConnDB.ProviderName %>"   
SelectCommand="SELECT p.tProdID, p.tProdImage, p.tProdBeschrijving, m.tMerkNaam, m.tMerkImage,   p.tProdVerkoop FROM tblProducten AS p INNER JOIN tblMerken AS m ON p.tMerkID = m.tMerkID ORDER BY m.tMerkNaam">  
</asp:SqlDataSource>

This is a screenshot of the gridview I’m talking about.

When I press one of the buttons I would like e.g. the parameter ID displayed in lblID.

All help, hints and tips are appreciated.

Answer 1

Assign a CommandName (which is like “ShowDetails” or so) and a CommandArgument (which is the ID of the record) to the button. A click on the button will now trigger the grid’s RowCommand event, passing you both CommandName and CommandArgument in e. Then fetch the record from your DB and populate your controls:

<asp:TemplateField>
    <ItemTemplate>
        <asp:Button runat="server" Text="Foo2" CommandArgument='<%# Eval("RowID") %>'
            CommandName="ShowDetails" />
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>


protected void GridView1_RowCommand(object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
{
    Debug.WriteLine("Command Handler");
}