Validators on Datagrid Column

Controls defined in the context of the item of the list type controlsare not available in the context of the page therefore you cannot useHandles keyword to attach event handlers to them (that is the defaultbehaviouf of the visual studio on double clicking the control).Instead, you have to create a procedure matching the signature of theevent you are after (easiest way to do this would be placing atemporary contol outside the grid and double clicking it then changeits qualifier to Protected instead of Private and remove the Handlesclause) and then use the attribute of the control in html to define theevent handler procedure for the control
Hope this helps

It does not seem to help.

When i try to go and get the validators they are always return "nothing" in the findcontrol...

This is my statement for the find:

Private Sub DG_Teams_ItemCommand(ByVal source As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGridCommandEventArgs) Handles DG_Teams.ItemCommand
If e.CommandName = "EDIT" Then
DG_Teams.EditItemIndex = e.Item.ItemIndex
DG_Teams.ShowFooter = False
CV_E_TEAM_T_START_DAT = CType(e.Item.FindControl("CV_E_TEAM_T_START_DAT1"), CustomValidator) --> RETURNS NOTHING
CV_E_TEAM_T_END_DAT = CType(e.Item.FindControl("CV_E_TEAM_T_END_DAT1"), CustomValidator) --> RETURNS NOTHING

Inside the Edit cell in the DG_Teams datagrid i have the customvalidators with those ids ( "CV_E_TEAM_T_START_DAT1" and "CV_E_TEAM_T_END_DAT1" )
How is this possible? Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!
If your validators are defined in the EditItemTemplate then before you can access them you need to rebind your grid - simply setting the value of EditItemIndex will not help. In addition to this, if you rebind your grid in ItemCommand after setting the EditItemIndex and re-binding the grid, you will not be able to use e.Item to access the DataGridItem which is in edit mode because when you re-bind the grid the Items collection of the grid is cleared and re-created. So you would have to do this:
....
DG_Teams.EditItemIndex = e.Item.ItemIndex
DG_Teams.ShowFooter = False
DG_Teams.DataSource = ......
DG_Teams.DataBind()
CV_E_TEAM_T_START_DAT = CType(DG_Teams.Items(DG_Teams.EditItemIndex).FindControl("CV_E_TEAM_T_START_DAT1"), CustomValidator)
to access the validator in the edit template.
If you need to access the validator just to set it's event handler i still suggest you do that in html as an attibute of the control
Cheers

Strangly enough i think i had override that situation.

But your method is the solution for sure ;) But i am using a user control and the databinding and datasourcing is done in another place because of the other functions so...

I really thank you for the solution, if i cant get it to work with my override i think i will have todo the binding that way.

Best Regards,

Luis Simoes