ItemCommand, DeleteCommand DataItem

[Simon]

Dear Telerik,

I have bound my datasource to the radgrid and can see that for some ItemDataBound events the e.Item.DataItem is setup with the object from the DataSource. Great ! However, when I need the DataItem, in either the ItemCommand or the DeleteCommand events (when I can tell the user has pressed the Delete button) the DataItem == null. I have seen the example on how to get some DataKeyValues but I wonder why, given the Databound object is obviously available in the ItemDataBound, it cant be setup for the DeleteCommand and ItemCommand aswell. Maybe you could put this on my wishlist ?

Thanks,

Simon

[Yavor]

Hi Simon,

It depends on which command is firing the event - whether it would be a dataItem/EditForm item. Additionally, since the data is already available after ItemDataBound, it can be extracted from the items which are raising the event(s). Nevertheless, we will consider your suggestion as a possible feature request.

All the best,
Yavor
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[Chris]

Yes Simon, you made a good concern.  I think it would be nice to have the dataitem value available on those event.

Chris

[Vlad]

Hello guys,

DataItem cannot be available in ItemCommand due to very simple fact. We cannot store DataItem in ViewState. This is exactly in the same way as in MS DataGrid and MS GridView.

Greetings,
Vlad
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