Making entire row in Gridview clickable - asp.net

Question

I've been trying to follow this answer: How to implement full row selecting in GridView without select button?
But I'm still slightly confused. After following that question, my rows are now clickable. But how do I implement it to do something after being clicked? Currently, I use a button to do what I need to the database per row:
Here is the .aspx code:
<Columns>
<asp:ButtonField Text = "Click Me" CommandName = "Clicked" ButtonType = "Button" />
...other columns stuff
</Columns>
C# code behind:
protected void RowCommand(object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
{
//if button is clicked
if (e.CommandName == "Clicked")
{
//go find the index on the gridview
int selectedIndex = MsgInbox.SelectedIndex;
if (int.TryParse(e.CommandArgument.ToString(), out selectedIndex))
{
//do something with database
}
Now that works beautifully. However, I don't want a button to be clickable, I want a entire row to be clickable. I know this is currently wrong, but this is what I have so far for the code:
.aspx code
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateField>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:LinkButton ID="SelectRow" runat="server" ForeColor="red" CommandName="Clicked"></asp:LinkButton>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
C# code:
protected void Gridview_RowCreated(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
{
e.Row.Attributes["onmouseover"] = "this.style.cursor='pointer';this.style.textDecoration='underline';";
e.Row.Attributes["onmouseout"] = "this.style.textDecoration='none';";
var selectButton = e.Row.FindControl("SelectRow") as Button;
e.Row.Attributes["onclick"] = ClientScript.GetPostBackEventReference(selectButton, "");
I get a simple null pointer exception when I do this, but I'm not really familiar with e.Row.Attributes so I really have no idea where this is failing and what I need to do to add the database logic.
Thanks

Answer 1

It would be a lot simpler if you are ready to use jquery. For example,
<asp:GridView rowStyle-CssClass="row" ...
...
<asp:TemplateField>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:LinkButton ID="SelectRow" runat="server" CommandName="Clicked" CssClass="selButton" />
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
Note that each data row will have css class row and select button will have selButton
CSS would be some-thing like
tr.row { } /* normal row styling */
tr.row-highlight { background-color: blue; } /* highlighted row styling */
tr.row .selButton { display:none; visibility:hidden; } /* select button styling, I am using hidden button */
Finally the java-script
$(document).ready(function() {
$('tr.row').click(
function() {
// simulate click of select button
$(this).find('.selButton').click();
}).hover(
// add/remove css class to highlight on mouse over/out
function() { $(this).addClass('row-highlight'); },
function() { $(this).removeClass('row-highlight'); });
});

Answer 2

So I figured it out, and I'm sure there are better ways to implement it via jquery or javascript but I am not too good at either yet.
For my .aspx file, for the gridview, I simply added:
AutoGenerateSelectButton ="true"
In my C#, under MsgInbox_SelectedIndexChanged, I put all my RowCommand logic.
Finally, in C#, under my Gridview_RowCreated, I added this line to hide the Select link:
e.Row.Cells[0].Style["display"] = "none";