How to hide columns in an ASP.NET GridView with auto-generated columns?

Question

GridView1.Columns.Count is always zero even SqlDataSource1.DataBind();

But Grid is ok

I can do

for (int i = 0; i < GridView1.HeaderRow.Cel         


        

Answer 1

Similar to accepted answer but allows use of ColumnNames and binds to RowDataBound().

Dictionary _headerIndiciesForAbcGridView = null;

protected void abcGridView_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    if (_headerIndiciesForAbcGridView == null) // builds once per http request
    {
        int index = 0;
        _headerIndiciesForAbcGridView = ((Table)((GridView)sender).Controls[0]).Rows[0].Cells
            .Cast()
            .ToDictionary(c => c.Text, c => index++);
    }

    e.Row.Cells[_headerIndiciesForAbcGridView["theColumnName"]].Visible = false;
}

Not sure if it works with RowCreated().