ASP.net GridView get database values - asp.net

Question

I have my GridView populating like so:
<asp:Panel ID="pnlGrid" runat="server">
<div class="m_container" style="margin-bottom:20px;">
<asp:GridView ID="grdView" runat="server" CssClass="GridViewStyle"
AutoGenerateColumns="False" GridLines="None" Width="125%" onrowdatabound="builderGridView_RowDataBound" >
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField="id" Visible="False" />
<asp:BoundField HeaderText="Info" />
<asp:TemplateField>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:LinkButton name='<%#Eval("status") %>' CommandArgument='<%#Eval("id")%>' runat="server" Text='<%#Eval("status")%>' CommandName='<%#Eval("status")%>' ID="statusLink" />
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>
<RowStyle CssClass="RowS" />
<EmptyDataRowStyle CssClass="EmptyS" />
<PagerStyle CssClass="PagerStyle" />
<SelectedRowStyle CssClass="SelectedS" />
<HeaderStyle CssClass="HeaderS" />
<EditRowStyle CssClass="EditRowS" />
<AlternatingRowStyle CssClass="AltRowS" />
</asp:GridView>
</div>
</asp:Panel>
</asp:Content>
And the code behind is:
Private Sub LoadData(ByRef theStatus As Integer)
Dim objConn As MySqlConnection
Dim objCmd As MySqlCommand
objConn = New MySqlConnection(strConnString)
objConn.Open()
Dim strSQL As String
strSQL = "SELECT * FROM theTable WHERE status=" & theStatus & " ORDER BY created_on, status DESC;"
Dim dtReader As MySqlDataReader
objCmd = New MySqlCommand(strSQL, objConn)
dtReader = objCmd.ExecuteReader()
grdView.DataSource = dtReader
grdView.DataBind()
dtReader.Close()
dtReader = Nothing
objConn.Close()
objConn = Nothing
End Sub
Then after the above i create a LinkButton for each row like so:
Sub builderGridView_RowDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As GridViewRowEventArgs)
If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
Dim lbtn As LinkButton = DirectCast(e.Row.FindControl("statusLink"), LinkButton)
e.Row.Cells(1).Text = "TEST!"
If lbtn.Text = 0 Then
Dim lb As New LinkButton()
lb.Text = "Accept"
lb.CommandName = lbtn.CommandName
lb.CommandArgument = lbtn.CommandArgument
lb.Attributes.Add("class", "nounderline")
lb.ForeColor = System.Drawing.Color.Green
lb.Font.Bold = True
lb.Font.Size = 12
lb.OnClientClick = "location.href = '/page.aspx?ID=" & pageID & "&dbid=" & lb.CommandArgument & "&ACCEPT=yes'; return false;"
e.Row.Cells(4).Controls.Add(lb)
End If
End If
End Sub
How can i get values from the database (name, address, email address, etc etc) and place it within the current row its going through?
example:
(when its looping through the rows)
e.Row.Cells(1).Text = database("FName") & "<BR />" & database("LName") & "<BR />"...etc etc
Would look like this in the first row column:
Bob
Barker
How can i grab whats currently being read from the DB?

Answer 1

builderGridView_RowDataBound event fill be handled for each row from the database.
e.Row.DataItem will contain the item from the database
Edit:
Better way would be
Using adap As New MySqlDataAdapter(objCmd)
Dim table As New DataTable()
adap.Fill(table)
grdView.DataSource = table;
grdview.DataBind();
Adapter will load all records to the DataTable.
Then your e.Row.DataItem will be of type DataRow