How to get column name from gridview?

Question

I would like to know how can I get a column name from a gridview? by its number not by name. like : Name|Age|Birthday: ( so name=0 , age=1 etc...)

thanks.

Answer 1

Revisiting this old question.... it's possible to get the field names of the data bound to a GridView with this kind of code. This makes a dictionary of colnum and field name.

private static IDictionary GetGridViewFieldNames(object grid)
{
    var names = new Dictionary();
    var view = grid as GridView;
    if (view != null)  {
        for (var i = 0; i < view.Columns.Count; i++)  {
            var field = view.Columns[i] as BoundField;
            if (field != null)  {
                names.Add(i, field.DataField);
            }
        }
    }
    return names;
}