Hannes Preishuber

# re: Migrating ASP.NET 2.0 B2 to final bits PART III Rowcommand

The frustrating thing is that the Row property of GridViewCommandEventArgs is marked "internal" for some odd reason.

You could use reflection to get the internal "Row" property, or you can do some subclassing to make it public

public class GridViewEx : GridView
{
  protected override GridViewRow CreateRow(...)
{
return new GridViewRowEx(...)
}
}

public class GridViewRowEx : GridViewRow
{
public GridViewRowEx(...) : base(...)
{
}
protected override bool OnBubbleEvent(...)
{
if(e is CommandEventArgs)
{
GridViewCommandEventArgsEx args =
new GridViewCommandEventArgsEx(this, source, (CommandEventArgs)e);
base.RaiseBubbleEvent(this, args);
return true;
}
return false;
}
}

public class GridViewCommandEventArgsEx :
GridViewCommandEventArgs
{
private GridViewRow _row;
public GridViewCommandEventArgsEx(GridViewRow row, object cs, CommandEventArgs orig)
: base(row, cs, orig)
{
_row = row;
}
public GridViewRow Row
{
get { return _row; }
}
}

You can then add a <tagMapping> in your web.config to remap <asp:GridView> to your custom type and then just try to cast GridViewCommandEventArgs to GridViewCommandEventArgsEx in the RowCommand.

Reflection would be less code but slow, while this override is more code but fast (all early-bound)