Cannot get values from textboxes in templateField inside of gridview

Question

Sorry about the code earlier. Could anyone please help? I have a gridview GridView1 which is populated on PageLoad() by importing from Excel sheet that has three columns:

1. Date
2. Customers
3. PayingBookNoOrDD

The sheet has five rows. Users can edit the data in textboxes on the page (markup below). After editing, when the user clicks on the submit button, I need to get these new values from all the textboxes and update the same Excel sheet from where the GridView was populated.

I created three string arrays: dateArray, custArray, and payingInBookArray to store these new values. But when I run the application all three arrays are empty.

Markup:

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false" DataKeyNames="Date,Customers,PayingInBookNoOrDD" >
    <Columns>
    <asp:TemplateField>
        <HeaderTemplate>Date</HeaderTemplate>
        <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtDate" Text='<%# Bind("Date") %>'></asp:TextBox>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>
    <asp:TemplateField>
        <HeaderTemplate>Customers</HeaderTemplate>
        <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtCustomers" Text='<%# Bind("Customers") %>'></asp:TextBox>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>
    <asp:TemplateField>
        <HeaderTemplate>PayingInBookNoOrDD</HeaderTemplate>
        <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="txtPayingInBookNoOrDD" Text='<%# Bind("PayingInBookNoOrDD") %>'></asp:TextBox>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>
    </Columns>
</asp:GridView>

<asp:Button ID="txtSubmit" runat="server" Text="Submit" onclick="txtSubmit_Click" />

Code-behind:

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string selectQuery = "SELECT * FROM [Month1$B2:D5]";
    OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(connString);

    conn.Open();

    OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(selectQuery, conn);
    DataSet ds = new DataSet();
    da.Fill(ds);

    GridView1.DataSource = ds;
    GridView1.DataBind();

    conn.Close();
    da.Dispose();
    conn.Dispose();
}

protected void txtSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    IList<string> DateArray = new List<string>();
    IList<string> custArray = new List<string>();
    IList<string> payInBookArray = new List<string>();

    foreach (GridViewRow gr in GridView1.Rows)
    {
        TextBox lblDate = (TextBox)gr.Cells[0].FindControl("txtDate");
        DateArray.Add(lblDate.Text);

        TextBox lblCustomers = (TextBox)gr.Cells[1].FindControl("txtCustomers");
        custArray.Add(lblCustomers.Text);

        TextBox lblPayInBookNo = (TextBox)gr.Cells[2].FindControl("txtPayingInBookNoOrDD");
        payInBookArray.Add(lblPayInBookNo.Text);
    }

    ExportToExcel(DateArray.ToArray(), custArray.ToArray(), payInBookArray.ToArray()); 

}

Please let me know if anyone has a solution.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Add a postback check on your Page_Load event. I can't see anything wrong with your btn_Submit code.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if(!this.IsPostBack){
         string selectQuery = "SELECT * FROM [Month1$B2:D5]";
         OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection(connString);
         conn.Open();
         OleDbDataAdapter da = new OleDbDataAdapter(selectQuery, conn);
         DataSet ds = new DataSet();
         da.Fill(ds);
         GridView1.DataSource = ds;
         GridView1.DataBind();
         conn.Close();
         da.Dispose();
         conn.Dispose();
    }
}