How to name BoundColumn to set Visible flag in Code Behind?

[Randall Parker]

One can set individual controls in Code Behind by giving the controls ID names and
then declaring corresponding objects for them in Code Behind and then setting Visible
= false or true for each such named control. So far so good.

But with asp:DataGrid and asp:BoundColumn one can not assign an ID to each column
since each column's data row gets reproduced N times for N table rows.

So how to "name" a bound column in order to be able to set the column's visibility in
Code Behind?

I want something like:

ColumnName.Visible = true;

and

ColumnName.Visible = false;

I want to decide at page load time whether particular columns will be visible.

Suggestions?

[Elton W]

I'm not sure you want to refer Column or Cell. If it's column, you can use

DataGridColumn colName = datagrid.Columns[col_index];

But if it's Cell, it's another story.

"Randall Parker" wrote:

One can set individual controls in Code Behind by giving the controls ID names and
then declaring corresponding objects for them in Code Behind and then setting Visible
= false or true for each such named control. So far so good.

But with asp:DataGrid and asp:BoundColumn one can not assign an ID to each column
since each column's data row gets reproduced N times for N table rows.

So how to "name" a bound column in order to be able to set the column's visibility in
Code Behind?

I want something like:

ColumnName.Visible = true;

and

ColumnName.Visible = false;

I want to decide at page load time whether particular columns will be visible.

Suggestions?

[Randall Parker]

Elton W wrote:

I'm not sure you want to refer Column or Cell. If it's column, you can use

DataGridColumn colName = datagrid.Columns[col_index];

But if it's Cell, it's another story.

Elton,

I do want to refer to columns. But isn't there some way to refer to columns with
logical names rather than indexes?