the meaning of life and gridview's e.newValue

hey all,
what is the purpose of e.NewValues inside the GridView1_RowUpdating routine?
i've seen examples where you findControl then assign that value to
e.NewValues, but that seems like an extra step.
thanks,
rodchar"rodchar" <rodchar@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hey all,
> what is the purpose of e.NewValues inside the GridView1_RowUpdating
routine?
> i've seen examples where you findControl then assign that value to
> e.NewValues, but that seems like an extra step.
> thanks,
> rodchar
I use is to validate serverside. Here is an example
Sub EmailGrid_Updating(sender as object, e as GridViewUpdateEventargs)
'Check format of new data
dim bCancel as boolean = false
msg1.text = string.empty
dim strEmailAddress as string = string.empty
if not e.newvalues(0) is nothing then
strEmailAddress = Server.htmlencode(e.newvalues(0).tostring())
end if
BCancel= Regex.IsMatch(strEmailAddress,
"^([\w-\.]+)@.((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([\w-]+\.)+))([a-zA-
Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$")
if BCancel then
dim strDate as string = string.empty
if not e.newvalues(2) is nothing then
strDate = Server.htmlencode(e.newvalues(2).tostring())
BCancel = IsDate(strDate)
if BCancel then
if (year(ctype(strDate,datetime)) < 2000) then
BCancel = false
end if
if not bCancel then msg1.text = "Invalid Date"
end if
else
msg1.text = "Invalid Email Address"
end if
e.Cancel = not bCancel
End sub
thank you i'll take a look.
"vMike" wrote:

> "rodchar" <rodchar@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:355B7331-25E9-4E98-BDC7-A7D8D9BC0C52@.microsoft.com...
> routine?
> I use is to validate serverside. Here is an example
> Sub EmailGrid_Updating(sender as object, e as GridViewUpdateEventargs)
> 'Check format of new data
> dim bCancel as boolean = false
> msg1.text = string.empty
> dim strEmailAddress as string = string.empty
> if not e.newvalues(0) is nothing then
> strEmailAddress = Server.htmlencode(e.newvalues(0).tostring())
> end if
> BCancel= Regex.IsMatch(strEmailAddress,
> "^([\w-\.]+)@.((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([\w-]+\.)+))([a-z
A-
> Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$")
> if BCancel then
> dim strDate as string = string.empty
> if not e.newvalues(2) is nothing then
> strDate = Server.htmlencode(e.newvalues(2).tostring())
> BCancel = IsDate(strDate)
> if BCancel then
> if (year(ctype(strDate,datetime)) < 2000) then
> BCancel = false
> end if
> if not bCancel then msg1.text = "Invalid Date"
> end if
> else
> msg1.text = "Invalid Email Address"
> end if
> e.Cancel = not bCancel
> End sub
>
>