selectedindexchanged on dynamically created gridview

Question

I've created a gridview dynamically, now i want to fire an event when the selectedindex has changed.

 GridView NewDg = new GridView();
 NewDg.ID = "SubGridView" + e.Row.RowIndex.ToString();
 NewDg.DataKeyNames = new string[]{"logentry_id"};
 NewDg.SelectedIndexChanged += new EventHandler(NewDg_SelectedIndexChanged);
 NewDg.RowDataBound += new GridViewRowEventHandler(NewDg_RowDataBound);

The RowDataBound works but it doesn't produce the right postback URL i guess. In the RowDataBound i have the following code:

GridView sendingGridView = (GridView)sender;
e.Row.Attributes["onclick"] = ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(sendingGridView, "Select$" + e.Row.RowIndex);

this produces the following code:

javascript:__doPostBack('SubGridView4','Select$0')

Only this doesn't lead to the postback to this function:

        void NewDg_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

        GridView sendingGridView = (GridView)sender;
        ViewDetails(Convert.ToInt32(sendingGridView.SelectedDataKey["logentry_id"].ToString()));
    }

Does anyone know what i'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

First, you are recreating the grid on every page load? This is a requirement for creating the grid this way. Second, try tapping into RowCommand, and looking for the command name that way; maybe that will fire successfully; you get a reference to the command through the command argument as in :

void rowcmd(..) {
   if (e.CommandName != null && e.CommandName.StartsWith("Select")) {
       //Dothis
   }
}

Answer 2

I found the answer to my question on Code Project :

I now use a gridview in my gridview

            <asp:TemplateField>
            <ItemTemplate>
                <asp:GridView ID="SubGridView" 

Because of the extender on GridView, The gridview will be displayed when I click on the plus sign (see link)

on page load i perform the following:

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        GridView1.RowCreated += new GridViewRowEventHandler(GridView1_RowCreated);
        GridView1.DataSource = dc.GetLogEntriesWithUsername();
        GridView1.DataBind();

I already have a DataBound and a Selected Index Changed event on this gridview.

On the row created event i perform the following:

        void GridView1_RowCreated(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
            GridView SubGridView = e.Row.FindControl("SubGridView") as GridView;
            List<GetLogEntriesWithUsernameByParentIdResult> subLogEntries = dc.GetLogEntriesWithUsernameByParentId(((GetLogEntriesWithUsernameResult)e.Row.DataItem).logentry_id).ToList();
            if (subLogEntries.Count > 0)
            {
                SubGridView.DataSource = subLogEntries;
                SubGridView.DataBind();
                (e.Row as ExtGridViewRow).ShowExpand = SubGridView.Rows.Count > 0;
            }
        }
    }

On the subgridview i also have a DataBound and a SelectedIndex Changed event. This works now!

I use this DataBound event:

        protected void GridView_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {        // only apply changes if its DataRow
        GridView sendingGridView = (GridView)sender;
        if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
            // when mouse is over the row, save original color to new attribute, and change it to highlight yellow color
            e.Row.Attributes.Add("onmouseover",
          "this.originalstyle=this.style.backgroundColor;this.style.backgroundColor='#C0C0C0';this.style.cursor='pointer';");

            // when mouse leaves the row, change the bg color to its original value   
            e.Row.Attributes.Add("onmouseout",
            "this.style.backgroundColor=this.originalstyle;this.style.cursor='cursor'");
            //e.Row.Attributes.Add("onclick", ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(sendingGridView, "Select$" + e.Row.RowIndex));

            e.Row.Cells[1].Attributes["onclick"] = ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(sendingGridView, "Select$" + e.Row.RowIndex);
            e.Row.Cells[2].Attributes["onclick"] = ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(sendingGridView, "Select$" + e.Row.RowIndex);
            e.Row.Cells[3].Attributes["onclick"] = ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(sendingGridView, "Select$" + e.Row.RowIndex);
            e.Row.Cells[4].Attributes["onclick"] = ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(sendingGridView, "Select$" + e.Row.RowIndex);
            e.Row.Cells[5].Attributes["onclick"] = ClientScript.GetPostBackClientHyperlink(sendingGridView, "Select$" + e.Row.RowIndex);

And the selected index changed event:

        protected void GridView_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        GridView sendingGridView = (GridView)sender;
        ViewDetails(Convert.ToInt32(sendingGridView.SelectedDataKey["logentry_id"].ToString()));         
    }

The ViewDetails function show the details of the selected logentry in a different div. Now i'm busy on the final step, that is keep showing the data as it was before i clicked on a row.

Thanks for the help, but this is the solution to my problem.