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I know how to do it if the column is in DataKeys, but if not?
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There is no easy way to do this in ASP.NET. These links might help you
http://aspadvice.com/blogs
http://forums.asp.net/p/10
yes that will work but only for non-autogenerated columns as stated already. my example loops through current header row cells looking for that specific name and when it finds it, it assigns the index of that cell to a variable for you to use it or you can just do whatever you need in the loop itself and break afterwards.
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by: klodvikPosted on 2009-09-24 at 01:06:00ID: 25410935
int index = 0; .Count; i++) l[i].Text == "Some Text")
for(int i=0; i<GridView1.HeaderRow.Cells
{
if(GridView1.HeaderRow.Cel
{
index = i;
break;
}
}
Hope that helps