>>>>>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.

In a way you got off lightly :-}
Usually 'Visible="false"' equates to 'does not exist' - i.e. the item in question doesn't even get instantiated.....