GridView.Rows Property

Definition

Gets a collection of GridViewRow objects that represent the data rows in a GridView control.

[System.ComponentModel.Browsable(false)]
public virtual System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowCollection Rows { get; }

Property Value

A GridViewRowCollection that contains all the data rows in a GridView control.

Attributes

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to use the Rows collection to access the row being edited in a GridView control. After a row is updated, a message is displayed to indicate that the update was successful.


<%@ Page language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
  
  void CustomersGridView_RowCommand(Object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
  {
    
    // Clear the message label when the user enters edit mode.
    if (e.CommandName == "Edit")
    {
      Message.Text = "";
    }
    
  }

  void CustomersGridView_RowUpdated(Object sender, GridViewUpdatedEventArgs e)
    {
   
        // The update operation was successful. Retrieve the row being edited.
        int index = CustomersGridView.EditIndex;
        GridViewRow row = CustomersGridView.Rows[index];
        
        // Notify the user that the update was successful.
        Message.Text = "Updated record " + row.Cells[1].Text + ".";
    
    }

  void CustomersGridView_RowCancelingEdit(Object sender, GridViewCancelEditEventArgs e)
    {
   
        // The update operation was canceled. Display the appropriate message.
        Message.Text = "Update operation canceled.";
    
    }

</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>GridView Rows Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        
      <h3>GridView Rows Example</h3>
            
      <asp:label id="Message"
        forecolor="Red"
        runat="server"/>
                
      <br/>    
            
      <!-- The GridView control automatically sets the columns     -->
      <!-- specified in the datakeynames property as read-only.    -->
      <!-- No input controls are rendered for these columns in     -->
      <!-- edit mode.                                              -->
      <asp:gridview id="CustomersGridView"
        allowpaging="true" 
        datasourceid="CustomersSqlDataSource" 
        autogeneratecolumns="true"
        autogenerateeditbutton="true"
        datakeynames="CustomerID"
        onrowcommand="CustomersGridView_RowCommand"
        onrowupdated="CustomersGridView_RowUpdated"
        onrowcancelingedit="CustomersGridView_RowCancelingEdit"  
        runat="server">
      </asp:gridview>
            
      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects  -->
      <!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET     -->
      <!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value   -->
      <!-- from the Web.config file.                            -->
      <asp:sqldatasource id="CustomersSqlDataSource"  
        selectcommand="Select [CustomerID], [CompanyName], [Address], [City], [PostalCode], [Country] From [Customers]"
        updatecommand="Update Customers SET CompanyName=@CompanyName, Address=@Address, City=@City, PostalCode=@PostalCode, Country=@Country WHERE (CustomerID = @CustomerID)"
        deletecommand="Delete from Customers where CustomerID = @CustomerID"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>"
        runat="server">
      </asp:sqldatasource>
            
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Remarks

The Rows property (collection) is used to store the data rows in a GridView control. The GridView control automatically populates the Rows collection by creating a GridViewRow object for each record in the data source and then adding each object to the collection. This property is commonly used to access a specific row in the control or to iterate though the entire collection of rows.

Note

Only rows with their RowType property set to DataControlRowType.DataRow are stored in the Rows collection. The GridViewRow objects that represent the header, footer, and pager rows are not included in the collection.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1

See also