How to select an item in Listview based on the DataKey

If you want to Select a listView item based on a Key , you can handle it's ItemDatabound event like below:

 

private int YourKeyValue = 3;

protected void ListView1_ItemDataBound(object sender, ListViewItemEventArgs e)

{

if (e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.DataItem)

{

ListViewDataItem di =(ListViewDataItem) e.Item;

int CurrentItemValue = int.Parse(ListView1.DataKeys[di.DataItemIndex].Value.ToString());

if (CurrentItemValue == YourKeyValue)

ListView1.SelectedIndex = di.DataItemIndex;

}

}