Get the value of hidden column in Gridview

Question

I am using a Gridview and wondering if there is way to hide a column from the Gridview but still be able to access the hidden column value.

I set visible= false for the column that I want to hide but when I try to get the value of the column, the value in the column is empty.

Thanks.

Answer 1

One way I have gotten values from Invisible GridView Columns is using the DataKeyNames attribute.

<asp:GridView runat="server" ID="GridView" DataKeyNames="ColName1, ColName2">
</asp:GridView>

then to access the data

var data = GridView.DataKeys[RowIndex].Values[KeyIndex]