Hi,

I have to retrieve from a gridviewrow on rowcommand a certain cell with a label... this label is in a itemtemplate!

I had already used the ctype(row.findcontrol(...), label).text and the ctype(row.cell(1).controls.item(2), label).text and they both return me the value ""...
If i use the row.cells(0).text on a databound the value is returning correctly...

Is it because of viewstate or lack of databind at that stage? Why can i get values from databound and not from itemtemplate?

best Regards

You should be able to access the text of of a label within an ItemTemplate, but that depends on how you're populating the Label with text.  Since you're not Binding the data, I'm going to assume you're programmatically populating the Label which might be the reason you're not seeing the text. 

I need to see your GridView code to help.
 

The problem lied on the fact i was using the label somewhat incorrect way... like <asp:label.......>binding was here</asp:label>... this way it returned null!

I changed to <asp:label..... Text='<eval....>' /> and it started working...

Lost time!!!