I have a gridview setup with a link, which performs as it should.

I would like perform the same functionallity with a button.

 Here's what I have so far (SOURCE- Link code is at the bottom which works correctly):

<asp:GridView BorderWidth="0px" Width="650px" ID="GridView2" Font-Size="8pt" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" AllowSorting="True" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource2" >

<Columns>

          <asp:BoundField DataField="ContractID" Visible="False" HeaderText="Contract ID" SortExpression="ContractID" />
          <asp:BoundField DataField="ContractName" HeaderText="Contract Name" SortExpression="ContractName" />

          <asp:ButtonField ButtonType="Button" Text="Renew" >
                 <ControlStyle Font-Size="7pt" />
          </asp:ButtonField>

           <asp:TemplateField>
                   <ItemTemplate>
                            <a href="ContractInformation.aspx?cid=<%#Eval("ContractID")%>">Renew</a>
                   </ItemTemplate>
           </asp:TemplateField>

       </Columns>

       <HeaderStyle Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="#FFFDFF" />
       <RowStyle ForeColor="#FFFDFF" />

</asp:GridView>

 How do I get my button Field to act like the <a href> that I have setup?

TIA!

 -S

Fzero,

Have you tried the control: LinkButton

<asp:LinkButton Text="click me" runat="server"></asp:LinkButton>

My suggestion to you in your case do not use ButtonField Replace it with this
<asp:TemplateField>
 <ItemTemplate>
   <asp:Button id="btnRenew" CommandName="Renew" CommandArgument='<%#String.Format("ContractInformation.aspx?cid={0}",Eval("ContractID"))%>' />
 </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>

Now in your code Behind Handle your GridView RowCommand Event

void GridView_RowCommand(Object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
{
    if(e.CommandName=="Renew")
    {
     string url = (string)e.CommandArgument;
     Response.Redirect(url);
    }
    
}

Hope this would match your needs. 

datagrid - The LinkButton control isn't really what I was going for.  Thank you tho!

mosessaur - That's the idea that I'm after, however, I need to work the codebehind in VB.  I'm afraid I'm not that fluent in java.

Do you know how it would translate to VB?

Thanks!

-S

sorry I didn't notice here is the equivalent code:
Protected Sub GridView_RowCommand(sender As Object, e As GridViewCommandEventArgs)
Begin
    If e.CommandName == "Renew" Then  
     url As string = CType(e.CommandArgument,String)
     Response.Redirect(url);
    End If
End

Try this

Private Sub GridView_RowCommand(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewCommandEventArgs)
    If e.CommandName = "Renew" Then
        Dim url As String = DirectCast(e.CommandArgument, String)
        Response.Redirect(url)
    End If
End Sub 

If you want to try it with no code behind and just the .aspx page, try this:

<asp:hyperlinkfield datatextfield="ProductName" datatextformatstring="{0:c}"

datanavigateurlfields="ProductID" datanavigateurlformatstring="~\details.aspx?ProductID={0}"         

headertext="Product"/>