I have a nested row that I am having some trouble with. When I try to edit a row in the nested gridview; I never hit my onRowUpdating method.

I can hit my OnRowEditing method just fine. I can hit my OnRowCanceling Method. I can even hit the OnSelectedIndexChanged method just find. But OnRowUpdating.. naw-uh! Why can't I hit everything just fine except the OnRowUpdating.

 as i step through it, it does everything I am telling it to do and I guress right before it is supposed to hit the OnRowUpdating method it renders the page.

I do have the OnRowUpdating property set on the gridview, I do have the datakeynames property set. oh and what is even more weired is that I can insert a new row (yet another command that works) and insert a new record (yet another command that works).

Please help!!!

Thanks!

OnRowUpdating ought to fire after you click the Update button. 

Are you saying that this is not happening?

Yep, when I click on Update (next to Cancel) and step through it in VS It does everyhing... hits all the methods it is supposed to and then just renders the page without even hitting on OnRowUpdating method.

Does your GridView control reference the code in is OnRowUpdaitng property?

Example:

<asp:GridView 
  id="ShopCartGrid" 
  DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" 
  Runat="Server"
  AutoGenerateColumns="False"
  DataKeyNames="ID"
  OnRowUpdating="GridView1_OnRowUpdating"
>
  <Columns>
.
.
.

Graphfixz :

Yep, when I click on Update (next to Cancel) and step through it in VS It does everyhing... hits all the methods it is supposed to and then just renders the page without even hitting on OnRowUpdating method.

Can you post your GridView ASPX mark up here and the relevant codes for RowUpdating? 

yes it does and I got a bit farther. I stripped the gridview down to its basics and I got it to hit the onRowUpdating. I still unsure as to what was causing this problem. However, now I have the problem that no values are being passed to the OnRowUpdating method. When I step throgh the code e.NewValues and e.OldValues are both empty.

Remember this is a nested gridview and yes, I am rebinding it on PageLoad.

 HI sometimes it happens...but you can do one thing...

Just go to designview->Press f4-->Go to eventhandler --> DblClick on OnRowUpdating Event.

Now carefully see the handler name. Is there any difference between the name in GridView property "OnRowUpdate"?

there is no difference. I can get to the OnRowUpdating now, however the values are all empty

Here is some of the code. I cleaned out a lot of the junk:

 aspx file:
<asp:GridView
OnRowUpdating="gv_RowUpdating"
OnPreRender="gv_PreRender"
OnRowCommand="gv_RowCommand" 
OnSelectedIndexChanged="gv_SelectedIndexChanged"
OnRowCancelingEdit="gv_RowCancelingEdit"
OnRowEditing="gv_RowEditing"
ID="gv"
runat="server"
DataKeyNames="Id,Title,Active"
AutoGenerateColumns="False"
CellPadding="0"
TabIndex="2"
ToolTip="TopLevels"

<Columns>
 <asp:CommandField ShowEditButton="true" ShowSelectButton="true" SelectText="Select" EditText="Edit" CausesValidation="false" />
        <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Title" SortExpression="Title">
  <HeaderTemplate>
                        Title
                </HeaderTemplate>
                <ItemTemplate>
                 <asp:Label ID="Title" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Title") %>' />
                </ItemTemplate>
                <EditItemTemplate>
                 <asp:TextBox ID="editTitle" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Title") %>' width="80%" />
                </EditItemTemplate>
                <FooterTemplate>
                 <asp:TextBox ID="addTitle" runat="server" width="50%"/>
                </FooterTemplate>
                <HeaderStyle CssClass="ms-vb2" />
                <ItemStyle Width="80%" CssClass="ms-vb2" />
                <FooterStyle  BackColor="#FFC0C0" CssClass="ms-vb2" />
        </asp:TemplateField>

     int rIndex = e.RowIndex;
     string title = ((TextBox)gv.Rows[rIndex].FindControl("editTitle")).Text; //this is where it crashes. 
 
 ...

}

ok, it just got more weird for me. I took out the OnRowUpdating event from the Grid and now when I  hit on Update it doesn't give the error that I should get:

Something to the nature of: The GridView fired event RowUpdating which wasn't handled.

 I must be missing something here!