Select a row in gridview without select button/link

[ssingh]

I want to select a row of gridview and display a DetailsView. There is issue of real estate on page so I do not want to use a select button. Please advise how can we achieve this?
Thanks

[sapator]

I Will give you the opposite solution, figure out the one you want:

[SeanGrebey]

I usually make one or more of the fields a hyperlink and use that as my select to drill into a details page, e.g. if I have a list of projects, I make the project name a link (or button or whatever you want, just a clickable control that handles your Select code). Then in your RowDataBound you can do something like the following to make the link:

    Protected Sub MyGridView_RowDataBound(sender As Object, e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs) Handles MyGridView.RowDataBound
        If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
            Dim MyLinkButton As LinkButton = e.Row.FindControl("MyLinkButton")

            MyLinkButton.PostBackUrl = "~\MyPage.aspx?ID=" & MyGridView.DataKeys(e.Row.RowIndex).Value

[jasonwucinski]

You can just use the row itself as a link. When the user mouses over the row, change the color (this will help alert them that the row itself is interactive). Have each row a hidden control with a unique ID. When the user clicks the row, your codebehind can determine the row number. Use that row number to get the corresponding hidden control. Then, use the ID from the hidden control to process the request from there.

[sapator]

It not mandatory but i think it would be better to get the gridview.Datakeys for determining the row.

[brin351]

You can set the link/button commandArgument = datakey and use the grid.rowCommand event to get it. All these suggestions require viewstate on the grid if that's ok, I's the detailview is on the same page?