GridView loses data during postback

Question

I have an aspx.Page containing a gridview. The gridview is bound in code behind to a datasource only when no postback takes place and has enableviewstate = true (The page to

Answer 1

from the description of the problem. it sounds as if you are doing the databinding in the code behind. in such case asp.net does not preserve the datasource in the viewstate for you. try retrieving the data and storing it in the ViewState hashtable object with something like ViewState["GridviewData"] = GridviewData

and retreiving it from there between postbacks