Using data to set properties of a GridView

Hi,

I need to set the 'ReadOnly' property of a BoundField in a GridView to the value of a bit field in the recordset that is being displayed by the same GridView.

I am aware I could achieve this in code, but I was wondering, out of interest, if it's possible to do this declaratively inside the property using a <% %> snippet?

Cheers,

Jamie

From stackoverflow

• If you need to bind to properties, I would use a TemplateField and then set the behavior there. This is only if you can't use the code, otherwise, that is your best bet.

  I don't think there's a way to bind the detail of a BoundColumn directly.

• Yes you can do this. Create a TemplatedField and in the binding statement use either

  <%# ((Employee)Container.DataItem).IsApproved ? "yes" : "no" %>
  

  or you can use a method from the code-behind

  <%# FormatBool(((Employee)Container.DataItem).IsApproved) %>
  

  where FormatBool is a property in your code-behind

  protected string FormatBool(bool value)
  {
     if (value)
        return "yes";
     return "no";
  }
  

• I was unable to find a way of manipulating the properties of either the BoundField or the TemplateField declaratively based on the DetailView's data.

  Bendewey very charitably assumed I was binding to a business object when in fact I am dealing with the data directly in this instance - apologies for not making that clear.

  My solution in the code behind was the following:

      protected void DetailsView1_DataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)
      {
          DetailsView dv = (DetailsView)sender;
  
          if (dv.DataItemCount > 0)
          {
              DataRowView data = (DataRowView)dv.DataItem;
              bool isFixed = (bool)data["IsFixed"];
  
              if (isFixed)
              {
                  dv.Rows[2].Enabled = false;
                  dv.Rows[6].Enabled = false;
              }
          }
      }
  

  I was disapointed that I had to reference the rows I wanted to disable by index. Possibly there's a way of referencing these rows by their data field without iterating through all the rows, but I couldn't find it at first glance.

  Thanks for the help!