Substitue ItemArray with something else in a FormView

When loading a FormView I try to fill a third-party combo control with
this code:
Protected Sub FormView1_ItemCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
EventArgs)
If FormView1.Row.RowState = DataControlRowState.Edit Then
Dim rowView As DataRowView = TryCast(FormView1.DataItem,
DataRowView)
If Not rowView Is Nothing Then
'Get and fill cboProject
Dim strProjectID As String =
TryCast(rowView.Row.ItemArray(8), String)
Dim cboProject As WebCombo =
TryCast(FormView1.FindControl("cboProject"), WebCombo)
cboProject.Value = strProjectID
End If
End If
End Sub
It works great except that I would like to change
"TryCast(rowView.Row.ItemArray(8), String)" and use the column name
instead of ItemArray(8). I have many columns in the FormView so it's
very difficult for me to guess which number represents a certain
column.
How can this be done?
I'm very grateful for help!
// SHi there,
First of all it's better to move databound-releated code to DataBound event
handler. Second you can access column by names directly from DataRowView:
protected Sub FormView1_DataBound( _
ByVal sender As Object, _
ByVal e As EventArgs)
dim formView as FormView = DirectCast(sender, FormView)
if formView.CurrentMode = FormViewMode.Edit then
Dim rowView As DataRowView = TryCast( _
formView.DataItem, DataRowView)
Dim cboProject as WebCombo = TryCast( _
formView.FindControl("cboProject"), WebControl)
cboProject.Value = Convert.ToString(rowView("ColumnName"))
end if
end sub
Hope this helps
--
Milosz
"staeri@.gmail.com" wrote:

> When loading a FormView I try to fill a third-party combo control with
> this code:
> Protected Sub FormView1_ItemCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
> EventArgs)
> If FormView1.Row.RowState = DataControlRowState.Edit Then
> Dim rowView As DataRowView = TryCast(FormView1.DataItem,
> DataRowView)
> If Not rowView Is Nothing Then
> 'Get and fill cboProject
> Dim strProjectID As String =
> TryCast(rowView.Row.ItemArray(8), String)
> Dim cboProject As WebCombo =
> TryCast(FormView1.FindControl("cboProject"), WebCombo)
> cboProject.Value = strProjectID
> End If
> End If
> End Sub
> It works great except that I would like to change
> "TryCast(rowView.Row.ItemArray(8), String)" and use the column name
> instead of ItemArray(8). I have many columns in the FormView so it's
> very difficult for me to guess which number represents a certain
> column.
> How can this be done?
> I'm very grateful for help!
> // S
>