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Maybe I'm missing something, but in the Sorting event of the Gridview, the
GridViewSortEventArgs.SortDirection is always Ascending. I'm not sure why?

I found the similar behavior and put in the article at following link..

http://www.netomatix.com/development...ewSorting.aspx

There is a Sort method on GridView where you specify sort direction and in
response to that methos, GridView control sets the sort direction in the
event argument of sorting event. GidView does not know the direction by
itself nor it seems to keep track of it.

"Dave" <> wrote in message
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> Maybe I'm missing something, but in the Sorting event of the Gridview, the
> GridViewSortEventArgs.SortDirection is always Ascending. I'm not sure
> why?

[pawan.nogariya]

However the post is old, but since I have a very simple function to get the current sort direction for a column so I am posting too
You can find it here
getsortdirectionfunction.blogspot.com