>>>>I have a GridView on my page with 3 columns, RightKey, AllowDeny, and Caption. AllowDeny is a checkbox. When Saved is clicked I
>>>>want to iterate through all rows and get these 3 values. So far I have:
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>foreach (GridViewRow Row in grdRights.Rows)
>>>>{
>>>>    CheckBox cb = (CheckBox)Row.FindControl("chkAllowDeny");
>>>>}
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>But the other 2 columnd are bound, and there's no public ID property. So how do I get the values of these two columns?
>>>>
>>>>I'm sure it's something like
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>TextBox txt= (TextBox)Row.FindControl(-- name here --);   
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>But if I can't set the ID, then what's the name?
>>>
>>>If you don't give it an ID then it simply won't have a 'name'
>>>What prevents you providing IDs ?
>>
>>When I try this:
>>
>>

>><asp:BoundField ID="RightName" DataField="RightName" HeaderText="Right Name" />
>>

>>
>>I get a compiler exception saying ID is not a public property for a BoundField.
>
>Ah. Fair enough. Since you pretty much know the layout of the grid can't you just use something like:

MyTextBox.Text = Row.Cells[0].Text;

Yup. Then I realized how little I know about ASP when this returned an empty string because the column was invisible.