I've got two questions on how to do things in the new GridView. I'm used to
the DataGrid in ASP 1.1, so I need the equavalent in ASP 2.0 Gridview.

1.) What is the equavalent for Item Command event in GridView? I thought it
would be RowCommand, but I can't get that event to fire with a check box
field that I drag/drop in a template column in the ItemTemplate.

2.) For a Templated column, like a check box above, where do I tell it the
data field to bind from the data source? There is not a Template DataField
property to set to the database field name as in a bound field.

hi Chris, Checkbox control does not fire a command Event so you are out of
luck here. Nothing will be fired in the RowCommand method. Your alternative
is to wire the checkedchanged event declaratively on the checkbox control
itself like :

<asp:CheckBox ID="CheckBox1" runat="server"
OnCheckedChanged="CheckBox1_CheckedChanged" />

the method it is wired to :

protected void CheckBox1_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }

As for your second question, do it as you did in asp.net 1.1. Add the
checkbox to the itemtemplate, and call a method in your codebehind that
returns true or false, based on the value of the datafield.
Alternatively, following is a proper example on how to include a checkbox in
a datagrid control using custom templates, the same style will apply to the
gridview as well. Small minor changes on how to hookup the custom checkbox
template, but nothing you cant find answers to on google or postback here
with problems.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306227/

Regards,
Alessandro Zifiglio
http://www.AsyncUI.net

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