GridView column populated by method.

[SteveInBeloit]

Hi,
I dragged a Gridview onto the page, and in the code, set the DataSource and did the DataBind. That all went well. For one of the columns, I want to populate by calling a method passing it the original value from the datasource.
How can I do this?
Thanks

 

[MattP]

Try something like this.

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="ColumnName">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <%#CallStatus(CType(CType(Container.DataItem, System.Data.DataRowView).Row, DataSetName.DataTableNameRow))%>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>

For the code behind.

Protected Function CallStatus(ByVal status As DataSetName.DataTableNameRow) As String
    ...
End Function

 

[SteveInBeloit]

Matt,
Thanks, you got me going down the right path by looking at your code. Here is what I ended up with that works:

  <ItemTemplate>
          <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text = '<%# ShowGroupBenefit(Container.DataItem) %>'></asp:Label>
  </ItemTemplate>