Handling Dropdownlist inside gridview

Often there is a need to handle OnSelectedIndexChanged event of a dropdown residing inside a GridView. This can be handled as following:

1. Specify an event handler from dropdown in ASPX

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False">

<Columns>

<asp:TemplateField>

<ItemTemplate>

<asp:DropDownList OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddl_Change" DataTextField="UserName" AutoPostBack="true" DataValueField="userId" ID="ddl" runat="server"/>

2. Add event handler in ASPX.cs

Protected Sub ddl_Change(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)

'You can retrieve Dropdown as:

Dim DropDownControl As DropDownList = CType(sender, DropDownList)

'You can retrieve Parent GridRow as:

Dim gridRow As GridViewRow = CType(CType(sender, DropDownList).NamingContainer, GridViewRow)

' Do stuff with your dropdown and grid row like populating other dropdown.

End Sub

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