GridView Cell Color Red If Text Empty?

maybe coz your that column would be empty that's why the condition is true to get the cell color Red

Okay, here's how it's done in RowDataBound (similar to MajorBigDeal).

I can now read text of both:


    protected void gridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
    {
            foreach (GridViewRow row in gridView1.Rows)
            {                              
                if(row.Cells[6].Text == "10")
                row.Cells[6].BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;

                if(((Label)row.FindControl("label1")).Text == "Jim")
                    ((Label)row.FindControl("label1")).BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green; //right-next to cell[6].

            }    
    }

New Problem:
  1. asp:CommandField won't 'fire', throws error:
        "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
   
However, asp:ButtonField works fine.

Yes but it doesn't make sense to put that in row data bound because you are iterating the entire grid for every row. For example, if your grid has 100 rows , your loop will run 10000 times.  I guess it doesn;t really matter but I think it would be better in the page load.  

I want to help with your new problem, but there isn't enough info,  Also, if you open a new question for that, you'll probably get more responses since experts are always jumping on new questions.

I'll give you points because your solution works, but not in RowDataBound.