Displaying ASP GridView row index number

You can achieve this through two way:

Method 1

Step 1. Add this your GridView:

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<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataKeyNames="id" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" OnRowCreated="GridView1_RowCreated" >   <Columns> <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="RowId"> <ItemTemplate><asp:Label runat="server" />                      </ItemTemplate>            </asp:TemplateField> ... </Columns>

Step 2: Add following GridView Event code snippet to your code – behind file (.cs)

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protected void GridView1_RowCreated(object sender, System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs e) { if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow) { // Retrieve the Label from the first column. Label myLabel = (Label)e.Row.Cells[0].Controls[0];   // Set Label text equal to the rowIndex +1 myLabel.Text = e.Row.RowIndex.ToString() + 1; } }

Method 2

The another way to do it is this one in the Columns section of your GridView control:

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<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" AllowSorting="True" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1" PageSize="5"> <Columns> <asp:TemplateField> <ItemTemplate> <%# Container.DataItemIndex + 1 %> </ItemTemplate> </asp:TemplateField> <asp:BoundField DataField="CategoryName" HeaderText="CategoryName" SortExpression="CategoryName" /> <asp:BoundField DataField="Description" HeaderText="Description" SortExpression="Description" /> </Columns> </asp:GridView>