ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Working with GridView Control Events

The GridView control includes a rich set of events that you can handle to customize the control’s behavior and appearance. These events can be divided into three groups.

First, the GridView control supports the following set of events raised when the control displays its rows:

• DataBinding— Raised immediately before GridView is bound to its data source.

• DataBound— Raised immediately after GridView is bound to its data source.

• RowCreated— Raised when each row in GridView is created.

• RowDataBound— Raised when each row in GridView is bound to data.

Second, the GridView control includes the following set of events raised when you edit records:

• RowCommand— Raised when an event is raised by a control ...