How to get values from template fields in GridView?

Question

This is my markup of GridView.

<Columns>
    <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Customer Name">
        <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:Label ID="lblname" runat="server" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Customer.Name")%>'></asp:Label>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>
    <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="PickUpPoint">
        <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:Label ID="lblPickUpPoint" runat="server" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Pickuppoint")%>'></asp:Label>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>

I have a button which stores the values in the worksheet cells of excel object.

for (int i = 0; i < GridView2.Rows.Count; i++)
{
    for (int j = 0; j < GridView2.Rows[i].Cells.Count; j++)
    {
        xlWorkSheet.Cells[i + 1, j + 1] = GridView2.Rows[i].Cells[j].Text;
   }
}

How do I get the values of GridView and store it in a worksheet, as the GridView2.Rows[i].Cells[j].Text returns empty string.

Answer 1

Your are missing a type cast. Do it like this-

Label name = (Label)GridView2.Rows[i].Cells[j].FindControl("lblname");
xlWorkSheet.Cells[i + 1, j + 1] = name.Text;

Update- If you can name your labels as Label0 and Label1, then in the second for loop-

for (int j = 0; j < GridView2.Rows[i].Cells.Count; j++)
  {
     Label xyz = (Label)GridView2.Rows[i].Cells[j].FindControl("Label"+j);
     xlWorkSheet.Cells[i + 1, j + 1] = xyz.Text;
  }

For Header text- string hText = GridView2.HeaderRow.Cells[your column number].Text;