DataGrid Event fun with Linkbuttons and Pushbuttons...
Well, there have been many questions regarding why in a datagrid the ItemCommand does not fire when using Push Buttons, but when using LinkButtons, everything works as expected.
So here is the skinny...
When using a LinkButton, you see in the Status Bar the following:
javascript: __doPostBack('Northwind:_ctrl1:_ctrl3','');
This causes the following to happen:
theform.__EVENTTARGET.value = eventTarget;
theform.__EVENTARGUMENT.value = eventArgument;
With this in place, the Eventtarget picked up by the CLR on PostBack, raises the PostBack Event and will fire the event even if you Re-bind over the DataGrid. This seems to work fine no matter what because of this javascript function.
When you use the PushButton, it is merely a submit button and the name of the submit button would be the 'Northwind:_ctrl1:_ctrl3' so that the event target would still be there, but it would not get put in place until the events were processed. So in this case if you Re-Bind your Datagrid in your Page_Load then it overwrites the event and it does not fire.
This is the great reason that when you are doing PostBack and you have a Binding Process that happens in the Page_Load, make sure you test for PostBack before you rebind.
C#:
if(!IsPostBack) {
// do something
}
VB:
If Not IsPostBack Then
' do something
End If
Then you will not have problems with your PostBack events with a DataGrid.
Happy DataGridding....
