DropDowns in GridView

[MRW]

I have a GridView which displays simple labels in ItemTemplate, and
when it goes to EditTemplate, one field is a dropdown list and the
other is a text box.

On gvTT_RowUpdating(..), I'm able to access the text box without any
issue, using:

Dim newDate As TextBox = gvTT.Rows(gvTT.EditIndex).FindControl("Date")

However, for the dropdown, when I use:

Dim ddlCategories As DropDownList =
gvTT.Rows(e.RowIndex).FindControl("ddlCategories")

I can access all the properties of the dropdown (being it's finding
it), however, I cannot access the selected value!

Response.Write(ddlCategories.SelectedIndex)

Does anybody know why I cannot access the dropdown list, yet I can
access the text boxes???

Thanks for ANY help!

[nahid]

On Jul 17, 11:17 am, MRW <[e-mail]:

I have a GridView which displays simple labels in ItemTemplate, and
when it goes to EditTemplate, one field is a dropdown list and the
other is a text box.

On gvTT_RowUpdating(..), I'm able to access the text box without any
issue, using:

Dim newDate As TextBox = gvTT.Rows(gvTT.EditIndex).FindControl("Date")

However, for the dropdown, when I use:

Dim ddlCategories As DropDownList =
gvTT.Rows(e.RowIndex).FindControl("ddlCategories")

I can access all the properties of the dropdown (being it's finding
it), however, I cannot access the selected value!

Response.Write(ddlCategories.SelectedIndex)

Does anybody know why I cannot access the dropdown list, yet I can
access the text boxes???

Thanks for ANY help!

hi,
did you try this
gvTT.Rows(e.RowIndex).FindControl("ddlCategories") .SelectedItem.Value
hope it will work

thanks
nahid
http://nahidulkibria.blogspot.com/
http://www.kaz.com.bd

[MRW]

hi,
did you try this
gvTT.Rows(e.RowIndex).FindControl("ddlCategories") .SelectedItem.Value
hope it will work

thanks
nahidhttp://nahidulkibria.blogspot.com/http://www.kaz.com.bd

Yes I did and same result...

[MRW]

Thanks for the response. However, I did try that out as well with the
same results.

nahid wrote:

On Jul 17, 11:17 am, MRW <[e-mail]:

I have a GridView which displays simple labels in ItemTemplate, and
when it goes to EditTemplate, one field is a dropdown list and the
other is a text box.

On gvTT_RowUpdating(..), I'm able to access the text box without any
issue, using:

Dim newDate As TextBox = gvTT.Rows(gvTT.EditIndex).FindControl("Date")

However, for the dropdown, when I use:

Dim ddlCategories As DropDownList =
gvTT.Rows(e.RowIndex).FindControl("ddlCategories")

I can access all the properties of the dropdown (being it's finding
it), however, I cannot access the selected value!

Response.Write(ddlCategories.SelectedIndex)

Does anybody know why I cannot access the dropdown list, yet I can
access the text boxes???

Thanks for ANY help!

hi,
did you try this
gvTT.Rows(e.RowIndex).FindControl("ddlCategories") .SelectedItem.Value
hope it will work

thanks
nahid
http://nahidulkibria.blogspot.com/
http://www.kaz.com.bd

[MRW]

Thanks for the reply! However, this was one of the things I tried
with no success...

On Jul 17, 1:37 pm, nahid <[e-mail]:

On Jul 17, 11:17 am, MRW <[e-mail]:

I have a GridView which displays simple labels in ItemTemplate, and
when it goes to EditTemplate, one field is a dropdown list and the
other is a text box.

On gvTT_RowUpdating(..), I'm able to access the text box without any
issue, using:

Dim newDate As TextBox = gvTT.Rows(gvTT.EditIndex).FindControl("Date")

However, for the dropdown, when I use:

Dim ddlCategories As DropDownList =
gvTT.Rows(e.RowIndex).FindControl("ddlCategories")

I can access all the properties of the dropdown (being it's finding
it), however, I cannot access the selected value!

Response.Write(ddlCategories.SelectedIndex)

Does anybody know why I cannot access the dropdown list, yet I can
access the text boxes???

Thanks for ANY help!

hi,
did you try this
gvTT.Rows(e.RowIndex).FindControl("ddlCategories") .SelectedItem.Value
hope it will work

thanks
nahidhttp://nahidulkibria.blogspot.com/http://www.kaz.com.bd