ComboBox inside UseControl for RadGrid Edit Form

[Karen]

Hello

I am using User Control as Edit Form for RadGrid , there is a combo box inside that user control, how can I set the default value for that combo, in this example  there are only text boxes there and it is easy to set defaule values for them, but how about combo box?

[Simon]

Hello Karen,

You could handle the DataBound event of that ComboBox and set its value there.

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Simon
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[Karen]

But how to get the value of the selected item from code behind?
I see in your example everything is bound in aspx page using <%# DataBinder.Eval(....) %> nothing is bound from code behind there.

[Simon]

Hello Karen,

In case you handle the ComboBox's DataBound event you could obtain the Grid Row's DataItem in this way:

protected void RadComboBox1_DataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    RadComboBox comboBox = (RadComboBox)sender;
    GridEditFormItem gridEditFormItem = (GridEditFormItem)comboBox.Parent.NamingContainer;
    DataRowView dataItem = (DataRowView)gridEditFormItem.DataItem;
    comboBox.SelectedValue = dataItem["ColumnName"].ToString();
}

Alternatively, you could handle the Grid's ItemDataBound event and achieve the same result as shown below:

private void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
    if(e.Item is GridEditFormItem && e.Item.IsInEditMode)
    {
        UserControl MyUserControl = e.Item.FindControl (GridEditFormItem.EditFormUserControlID) as UserControl;
        GridDataItem parentItem = (e.Item as GridEditFormItem).ParentItem;
        RadComboBox comboBox = (RadComboBox)MyUserControl.FindControl("RadComboBox1");
        comboBox.SelectedValue = parentItem["ColumnName"].Text;
    }
}

Regards,
Simon
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