Before the System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView control can be rendered, each row in the control must be bound to a record in the data source. The GridView.RowDataBound event is raised when a data row (represented by a System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRow object) is bound to data in the System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridView control. This enables you to provide an event-handling method that performs a custom routine, such as modifying the values of the data bound to the row, whenever this event occurs.

Raising an event invokes the event handler through a delegate. For more information, see Raising an Event.

The GridView.OnRowDataBound(GridViewRowEventArgs) method also allows derived classes to handle the event without attaching a delegate. This is the preferred technique for handling the event in a derived class.

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Namespace: System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Assembly Versions: 2.0.0.0
Since: .NET 2.0