ListViewCommandEventArgs.Item Property

 

Gets the data item for which the command was issued.

Namespace:   System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:  System.Web.Extensions (in System.Web.Extensions.dll)

Public ReadOnly Property Item As ListViewItem

Property Value

Type: System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListViewItem

The data item from the ListView control for which the command was issued.

The following example shows how to use the ListViewCommandEventArgs object that is passed to the event handler.

<%@ Page language="VB" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<script runat="server">
  Protected Sub EmployeesListView_OnItemCommand(ByVal sender As Object, _
  ByVal e As ListViewCommandEventArgs)

    If String.Equals(e.CommandName, "AddToList") Then

      ' Verify that the employee ID is not already in the list. If not, add the
      ' employee to the list.
      Dim dataItem As ListViewDataItem = CType(e.Item, ListViewDataItem)
      Dim employeeID As String = _
        EmployeesListView.DataKeys(dataItem.DisplayIndex).Value.ToString()

      If SelectedEmployeesListBox.Items.FindByValue(employeeID) Is Nothing Then
        Dim item As ListItem = _
          New ListItem(e.CommandArgument.ToString(), employeeID)
        SelectedEmployeesListBox.Items.Add(item)
      End If

    End If

  End Sub
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head id="Head2" runat="server">
    <title>Employee List</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
      <asp:ListView runat="server" 
        ID="EmployeesListView"
        OnItemCommand="EmployeesListView_OnItemCommand"
        DataSourceID="EmployeesDataSource" 
        DataKeyNames="EmployeeID">
        <LayoutTemplate>
          <table runat="server" id="tblEmployees" 
                 cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="440px" border="1">
            <tr id="itemPlaceholder" runat="server"></tr>
          </table>
          <asp:DataPager ID="EmployeesDataPager" runat="server" PageSize="10">
            <Fields>
              <asp:NumericPagerField />
            </Fields>
          </asp:DataPager>
        </LayoutTemplate>
        <ItemTemplate>
          <tr runat="server">
            <td>
              <asp:Label runat="server" ID="NameLabel" 
                Text='<%#Eval("LastName") & ", " & Eval("FirstName") %>' />
            </td>
            <td style="width:80px">
              <asp:LinkButton runat="server" 
                ID="SelectEmployeeButton" 
                Text="Add To List" 
                CommandName="AddToList" 
                CommandArgument='<%#Eval("LastName") & ", " & Eval("FirstName") %>' />
            </td>
          </tr>
        </ItemTemplate>
      </asp:ListView>

      <br /><br />
      <b>Selected Employees:</b><br />
      <asp:ListBox runat="server" ID="SelectedEmployeesListBox" Rows="10" Width="300px" />

      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects      -->
      <!-- to the AdventureWorks sample database. Use an ASP.NET    -->
      <!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value       -->
      <!-- from the Web.config file.                                -->       
      <asp:SqlDataSource ID="EmployeesDataSource" runat="server" 
        ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:AdventureWorks_DataConnectionString %>"
        SelectCommand="SELECT [EmployeeID], [FirstName], [LastName]
                       FROM HumanResources.vEmployee
                       ORDER BY [LastName], [FirstName], [EmployeeID]">
      </asp:SqlDataSource>
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

.NET Framework
Available since 3.5
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