Accessing DataItem and EditItemTemplate controls from OnItemEditing

[Bruno]

Given a ListView with an ItemTemplate, InsertItemTemplate, and EditItemTemplate, how can I access the controls in the EditItemTemplate before they are first displayed?

<telerik:RadListView ID="ContactsList" runat="server" DataSourceID="ContactsDataSource"
            GroupItemCount="4"
            DataKeyNames="EntityContactID"
            OnItemEditing="ContactsList_ItemEditing"
            AllowMultiItemEdit="false"
            >

ContactsDataSource is a LinqDataSource with EnableUpdate=true

            <ItemTemplate>
                <asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton1" runat="server" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval( Container, "DataItem.Name" ) %>'
                        ForeColor="Blue" CommandName="Edit" CausesValidation="false" />

protected void ContactsList_ItemEditing(object sender, RadListViewCommandEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.ListViewItem.ItemType == RadListViewItemType.DataItem)
        {
            RadListViewDataItem dataItem = (RadListViewDataItem)e.ListViewItem;

Here, dataItem.DataItem is null, e.ListViewItem.FindControl() only finds controls in the ItemTemplate and not the EditItemTemplate and e.ListViewItem.IsInEditMode is false.

There is a LinkButton in the EditItemTemplate I need to access and modify before the edit form is shown to the user.

[Rosen]

Hi Bruno,

At the point of which ItemEditing event is raised, the RadListView is actually not yet switch to edit mode. Therefore a better place to access controls from EditTemplate is inside ItemCreated event as shown bellow:

protected void RadListView1_ItemCreated(object sender, RadListViewItemEventArgs e)
  {
      if (e.Item is RadListViewEditableItem && e.Item.IsInEditMode)
      {
          var myControl = e.Item.FindControl("MyControlID");
      }
  }

Sincerely yours,
Rosen
the Telerik team

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[Erik]

 

 

 

 

 

protected void rlv_ProductFile_ItemDataBound(object sender, Telerik.Web.UI.RadListViewItemEventArgs e)

 

{

 

 

if (e.Item.ItemType.Equals(RadListViewItemType.DataItem) || e.Item.ItemType.Equals(RadListViewItemType.AlternatingItem))

 

{

 

 

RadBinaryImage DataImage = (RadBinaryImage)e.Item.FindControl("DataImage");

 

 

 

RadListViewDataItem dataItem = ((RadListViewDataItem)e.Item).DataItem;

 

}

}

 

 

give this compiler error :
Error 1 Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to 'Telerik.Web.UI.RadListViewDataItem'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?) D:\Dev\KeepOnTrack\WebUserControls\Shop\ShowProductFile.ascx.cs 40 48 KeepOnTrack


please help