Yes, Shail resolved his issue by moving the DataBind() method our of the Render method and into CreateChildControls. See if that works for you. I will give you the same comment I did Shail (after congratulating him, of course ) and advice that you try to move the DataBind() method ahead in the lifecycle one method at a time. This because I am unsure as to whether CreateChildControls is the best place for it.

Let us know how you do!

Best of regards,

Erik

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Thanks Mate.

Thank you very much for your compliment! In my experience there can be a lot of reasons why your scenario is not (yet) working. So yes, please send me your code and I will take a look at it as soon as I can. My e-mail address is eburger at reversealchemy dot net.

Cheers,

Erik

First of all its and awesome post. And it worked as expected.
Now I would like to move directly to my problem as I am bit restless now.

I have a SPGridView embedded on a web part with following config:
1. Has got paging, sorting and data displayed from a DB view. All these things are configured in CreateChildControl function.
2. Data binding happens on Render() function of teh webpart.
3. A checkbox template column on the beginning of spgrid

I want my uses to be able to select multiple entried from the grid and click a button on the webpart. Then the grid will perform action on selected entried in the DB.

But, when i click any button embedded on the webpart, postback happens as expacted. when I try to surf the grid in the buttons click event handler, surprisingly I come to know that, the grid has got zero rows…

I tried everything like binding the grid again before checking the row count in button’s event handler, But leads to fill recreation of the grid and all the changes I made to grid(checking the check boxes) are lost.

I need a place where I can see the status of checkboxes (after they are modified by user)and use them to call Stored procedure etc.

Any idea whats happenning with me ?
I can post you the code if you would like to have a look on the same.

Million Thanks in advance.
Shail.

Thanks! I am glad you found the post useful.

To add another button to a TemplateField row you can just add another instance of a button to the control in the InstantiateIn method. So something like this:

LinkButton button = new LinkButton();
button.Text = "One button";
button.DataBinding += new EventHandler( button_DataBinding );
container.Controls.Add( button );
 
// Add another button
LinkButton button2 = new LinkButton();
button2.Text = "Another button";
button2.DataBinding += new EventHandler( button2_DataBinding );
container.Controls.Add( button2 );

Does this help? If I misunderstood your question please let me know. You can also drop me a line at eburger at reversealchemy dot net.

Regards,

Erik

one question: how can add one more button into every templatefield row?

Looking forward to your answer!