Can't get values from Cells in a GridView

[desinerd]

Hi All.

I am using a GridView to List contacts linked to a logged in User.

I can successfully bind the Gridview with a DataTable. And the values in the GridView are correctly displayed.

I have a BoundField at Index 0 of the GridView which pulls a value from a Column in the DataSource (datatable).

The problem I am facing is that all the values in the cells are coming back as empty strings.

Can Anyone help me understand what I am leaving out and what I am doing wrong.

Code is as below:

protected void grdContactList_RowCommand(Object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
    {
        Global.BindGridView(ref grdContactList, Global.g_dtContacts);
 
        if (e.CommandName == "EditContact")
        {
            string strCmdArg = Convert.ToString(e.CommandArgument);           
            string strContactID = grdContactList.Rows[Convert.ToInt32(strCmdArg)].Cells[0].Text;           
            Server.Transfer("EditContact.aspx?contactid=" + strContactID);
        }
        else if (e.CommandName == "DeleteContact")
        {
            string strCmdArg = Convert.ToString(e.CommandArgument);
            string strContactID = grdContactList.Rows[Convert.ToInt32(strCmdArg)].Cells[0].Text;
            string strAgentID = grdContactList.Rows[Convert.ToInt32(strCmdArg)].Cells[1].Text;
            Contact.DeleteContact(strContactID, strAgentID);
        }
    }
 
The values of both strContactID and strAgentID are coming back as "".
 
BindGridView(...) is basically...
 
GridView.Datasource = dtDatatable;
GridView.Databind();
 

Thanks.

[Plater]

Are you sure you should be re-binding before each click?

Also, you're looking at the first two columns, would those first two columns not be you buttons? Is it possible you're not looking at the columns you thought you were?
I've taken to doing a "dynamic" search.

int theRowIDX = 0;
int.TryParse(e.CommandArgument.ToString(), out theRowIDX );
int WantedIDX=-1;
for (int i = 0; i < gvIssuesSites.HeaderRow.Cells.Count; i++)
{
   if (gvIssuesSites.HeaderRow.Cells[i].Text == "MyWantedColumnName")
   {
      WantedIDX= i;
   }
}
if (WantedIDX != -1)
{//it found the column I wanted
   string mytext=gvIssuesSites.Rows[theRowIDX].Cells[WantedIDX].Text
}
 

[mzmishra]

addition to that you can also do like below
private void grdContactList_ItemCommand(object source, DataGridCommandEventArgs commandEventArgs_)
{


DataGridItem item = commandEventArgs_.Item;




int strContactID=int.Parse(item.Cells[0].Text);
Server.Transfer("EditContact.aspx?contactid=" + strContactID);


}