GridView template needs to set CommandArgument to row index

[David]

I have a template field in a GridView that contains two ImageButtons.
When the user clicks one of the buttons, the GridView's RowCommand
event is fired and I can get the CommandName. All that is fine.
However, e.CommandArgument is an empty string, presumably because the
CommandArgument property of the ImageButtons is not set.

Is there some way, in the markup, to set the CommandArgument to the row
index?

<ItemTemplate>
<asp:ImageButton ID="btnSave" runat="server"
CommandName="Save" ImageUrl="~/Images/Diskette.gif"
CommandArgument="SOMETHING HERE" />&nbsp;&nbsp;
<asp:ImageButton ID="Email" runat="server"
CommandName="Email" ImageUrl="~/Images/Envelope.gif"
CommandArgument="SOMETHING HERE" />
</ItemTemplate>

TIA,

David

 

[Teemu Keiski]

Here is one example doing it in code:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.gridview.rowcommand.aspx

It is set in RowCreated event.

 

[David]

Thank you for your reply. I had already planned on doing it in the
RowCreated event. I was just hoping there was some way to do it in the
markup.

Thanks again.

David

 

[mcalmeida]

There is a way to do it using the markup:

<asp:Button (...) CommandArgument="<%# Container.DataItemIndex %>" />

 

[vegeta4ss]

There is a way to do it using the markup:

<asp:Button (...) CommandArgument="<%# Container.DataItemIndex %>" />

Thank you so much! I've been fighting with the empty string trying to convert itself all afternoon. :mrgreen:

 

[mgalloway]

Awesome this works - thanks

 

[n3xus]

thanks a lot