GridView: Findcontrol from HeaderTemplate/ItemTemplate

How to find item template control in GridView?

Dim chkHeader As CheckBox = DirectCast(gridView1.Row.FindControl(“chkHeader”), CheckBox)

How to find control from header template in grid view?

For example If you want to find checkbox available in header template of gridview

<asp:GridView ID=”gridView1″ runat=”server” AutoGenerateColumns=”False”><Columns>

<asp:TemplateField >

<HeaderTemplate>

<asp:CheckBox ID=”chkHeader” runat=”server” />

 </HeaderTemplate>

</asp:TemplateField >

</Columns>

</asp:GridView>

Solution:

Find Header control using following line of code

VB.NET Code:

Dim chkHeader As CheckBox = DirectCast(gridView1.HeaderRow.FindControl(“chkHeader”), CheckBox)

C# Code:

CheckBox chkHeader = (CheckBox)gridView1.HeaderRow.FindControl(“chkHeader”);

Hope this is help !