>>I need to hide the "Edit" link of a DetailsView control based on a
>> condition. Basically trying to set the "ShowEditButton" property to
>> "false" when loading the page with the DetailsView on it if the user
>> is not an admin. Is it possible to do via code? The commandfield links
>
>In Page_Load, before data binding happens, you may set the ShowEditButton
>property appropriately:
>
>void Page_Load(...)
>{
>    if(IsUserAdmin())
>    {
>        detailsView1.ShowEditButton = true;
>    } else
>    {
>        detailsView1.ShowEditButton = false;
>    }
>}

"turboJeeper" <turboJee***@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry but there isn't an accessible "ShowEditButton" property of the
> DetailView1 control that I can see. It doesn't even show in the
> IntellySense. The ShowEditButton property is actually the property of
> the CommmandField object in the DetailsView control's Field collection
> as far as I can tell. This is in ASP.Net 2.0 of course.
>
> So how can I access this property?
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:38:08 +0530, "Gaurav Vaish
> \(www.EduJiniOnline.com\)" <gaurav.vaish.nospam@nospam.gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>>I need to hide the "Edit" link of a DetailsView control based on a
>>> condition. Basically trying to set the "ShowEditButton" property to
>>> "false" when loading the page with the DetailsView on it if the user
>>> is not an admin. Is it possible to do via code? The commandfield links
>>
>>In Page_Load, before data binding happens, you may set the ShowEditButton
>>property appropriately:
>>
>>void Page_Load(...)
>>{
>>    if(IsUserAdmin())
>>    {
>>        detailsView1.ShowEditButton = true;
>>    } else
>>    {
>>        detailsView1.ShowEditButton = false;
>>    }
>>}