Hi,

I have on an aspx page about 16 detailsView controls. Some are 4 rows deep, some 3 and some 2. The problem I have is that the code is immense because i am setting properties of various rows ie. text size and backcolor depending on the text status of the row. To try and cut down on code I am trying to write a class or a function to detect whether the details view is 2,3,or 4 rows deep, this could be assigned manually however. The main part of the function would encompass the following i.e

DetailsView1.Rows[3].Font.Size = 8;

    protected void XX_DataBind(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (DetailsView1.Rows[3].Cells[1].Text == "No Fault" && DetailsView4.Rows[0].Cells[1].Text == "aa")
        {
            DetailsView1.BorderColor = Color.LawnGreen;
        }
       
        }
        if (DetailsView1.Rows[3].Cells[1].Text != "No Fault" && DetailsView4.Rows[0].Cells[1].Text == "bb")
        {
            DetailsView1.BorderColor = Color.Yellow;
            DetailsView1.Rows[3].BackColor = Color.Yellow;
            DetailsView1.Rows[0].BackColor = Color.Yellow;
            DetailsView1.Rows[1].BackColor = Color.Yellow;
            DetailsView1.Rows[2].BackColor = Color.Yellow;
            DetailsView1.Rows[3].ForeColor = Color.Red;
        }

      There would be many more conditions in the lines above , and I am trying to replace the DetailsView1 with a generic DetailsView? in a function / class etc?

Hope this is clear, any help would be great, thanks- Harry

You can cast the sender object to DetailsView and you are done.

protected void XX_DataBind(object sender, EventArgs e)
{   
   DetailsView dv = (DetailsView)sender;

   //your generic code referencing "dv"
}

Hope this helps

No problem.

What I say is that by casting the sender, and of course asociating all GridView to the same event handler, you get a generic function.  Because you won't need to specify a fixed gridview name, just cast and you'll have the one that generate the event.

Hope it is clear, if not just let me know.

So would write:

Protected void Test (object sender, EventArgs e)

{    DetailsView dv = (DetailsView)sender;

DetailsView dv.Rows[1].BackColor = color.Red;  (but this will not work because of errors?)

}

then on the databinding event properties select Test from the dropdown list? for each detailsView used.

Can anybody help please? - thanks

Protected void Test (object sender, EventArgs e)

{    DetailsView dv = (DetailsView)sender;

dv.Rows[1].BackColor = color.Red; //Without "DetailsView " from the beg. of the line

}

Many thanks,