Checking Alternate Rows for Edit Mode in GridView RowDataBound

This blog describe how to detect that grid view in row editing mode for alternate rows in ASP.NET Gridview.

I am used RowDataBound event for a GridView control on my application. I want to detect the rows for edit mode to do some code in RowDataBound event. For which I wrriten the below code.

if ((e.Row.RowState == DataControlRowState.Edit) && (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow))
{
     // Logic here.
}

The above code worked fine only with Normal rows state(1, 3, 5... (non-alternating rows). But This piece of code not working if the row state is Alternate for edit mode (2,4,6.. (Alternating rows).

 

When I debug the code, the e.Row.RowState for alternate rows gives me the value something like "Alternate | Edit". That's means it RowState contains more than one value using bit-logic.

 

For more read about this read DataControlRowState Enumeration.

 

Solutions:

 

So, the solutions of above problem is to check the row state value as follows:

if (((e.Row.RowState & DataControlRowState.Edit) > 0) && (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow))
{
   // Logic here.
}