Hi,

A few days ago some one asked me this in a mail. After thinking on this a bit I decided to make a post as I thought this might be useful to many. Many a times while using a Gridview or a Datagrid we want to show a row number along with the Row, so that its easy for the user. The row number should always start from 1 no matter what the sorting is.

This can be done in many ways. We can fetch a record from the database itself using the identity column. But this small problem does not needs such a complex solution. It can easily be solved in the Gridview or Datagrid itself. What we need to do is add a new template column to the Gridview (I ma using Gridview’s example to do this same cane be done with Datagrid, datalist etc.). And in the template column add a new label. Now bind the label in the rowdatabound event. Here is a code snippet for the same in the rowdatabound event

if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
{
     Label lableIndex;
     int i = e.Row.RowIndex + 1;
     lableIndex = e.Row.FindControl("lableIndex ");
     lableIndex.Text = i.ToString();
}

That’s all, this will show a running number of the row no matter what the sorting is in the Gridview.

Vikram