How to avoid accessing row values with hard coded index

[Microsoft]

Hi there ,

My code look like this,

string var1,var2,var3,var4;

foreach (DataGridItem item in MyDataGrid.Items)

{

var1 = item.Cells[0].Text;

var2 = item.Cells[1].Text;

var3 = item.Cells[2].Text;

var4 = item.Cells[3].Text;

}

How can access the row data with column header text instead of hard coded
index's. Like



var1 = item.Cells["ID"].Text;

var2 = item.Cells["FromDate"].Text;

var3 = item.Cells["ToDate"].Text;

var4 = item.Cells["TransferDate"].Text;



Thanks

Baski

[Alvin Bruney]

this is an oversight on the part of MS. You can only access via an index. If
you really need this you will need to do a typed dataset
"Microsoft" <baski@aldensys.com> wrote in message
news:enWWnMqgDHA.2916@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

> Hi there ,
>
> My code look like this,
>
> string var1,var2,var3,var4;
>
> foreach (DataGridItem item in MyDataGrid.Items)
>
> {
>
> var1 = item.Cells[0].Text;
>
> var2 = item.Cells[1].Text;
>
> var3 = item.Cells[2].Text;
>
> var4 = item.Cells[3].Text;
>
> }
>
> How can access the row data with column header text instead of hard coded
> index's. Like
>
>
>
> var1 = item.Cells["ID"].Text;
>
> var2 = item.Cells["FromDate"].Text;
>
> var3 = item.Cells["ToDate"].Text;
>
> var4 = item.Cells["TransferDate"].Text;
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Baski
>
>

[Perecli Manole]

What I did is created an enumeration with one member for each column with a
value assigned to that of the coresponding index.

Private Enum EnumName
Column1 = 0
Column2 = 1
...
...
End Enum

Then whenever you need to access the cell do like so:
item.Cells[EnumName.Column1 ].Text

The benefit with this is that when you add or remove a column all you have
to do is adjust the enumeration. You won't have to go through every line of
code and change the indexes.

Perry


"Alvin Bruney" <vapordan_spam_me_not@hotmail_no_spamhotmail.com > wrote in
message news:O%23EOdEThDHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

> this is an oversight on the part of MS. You can only access via an index.

If

> you really need this you will need to do a typed dataset
> "Microsoft" <baski@aldensys.com> wrote in message
> news:enWWnMqgDHA.2916@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

> > Hi there ,
> >
> > My code look like this,
> >
> > string var1,var2,var3,var4;
> >
> > foreach (DataGridItem item in MyDataGrid.Items)
> >
> > {
> >
> > var1 = RegisterHiddenField> >
> > var2 = item.Cells[1].Text;
> >
> > var3 = item.Cells[2].Text;
> >
> > var4 = item.Cells[3].Text;
> >
> > }
> >
> > How can access the row data with column header text instead of hard

coded

> > index's. Like
> >
> >
> >
> > var1 = item.Cells["ID"].Text;
> >
> > var2 = item.Cells["FromDate"].Text;
> >
> > var3 = item.Cells["ToDate"].Text;
> >
> > var4 = item.Cells["TransferDate"].Text;
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Baski
> >
> >

>
>