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Is it generating the edit button in the first column (default)?
If it is, cell 0 has that, not your item template.
Edit: never mind, this is in the row editing event - the cell hasn't generated the edit template yet I don't think.
I'm testing to confirm that notion.
Edit#2: confirmed with test code.
Why aren't you binding that drop down? Then you wouldn't have to worry about it...
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This is full test code, using Northwind, showing binding the drop down list and showing that the event RowEditing is actually still looking at the item template, not edit item template.
I thought that might be the case when I noticed (breakpoints and tracing) that the GridView did not yet have an edit row set. It was -1.
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
public partial class FunWithGridView : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
protected void GridView1_RowEditing(object sender, GridViewEditEventArgs e)
{
object o = GridView1.Rows[e.NewEditIndex].Cells[4].FindControl("Label1"); // this works
object o2 = GridView1.Rows[e.NewEditIndex].Cells[4].FindControl("ddlCategory"); // this doesn't
int i = 0; // put breakpoint here to test
}
}
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I found this, and it addresses the issue with handling edit, why it doesn't work, and getting the edit item template controls via the RowCreated event. http://forums.asp.net/p/1010076/1661205.aspx
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ropDownList ID="ddlPersonCode" runat="server"
