Displaying Edit button in GridView based on Role

Question

I have a Grid View. I added AutoGenerateEditButton=True.

I want to display that button to users that belong to a certain role. If not the button is not rend

Answer 1

Use ButtonField with CommandName = Edit. You can hide the column in Page_Load function based on the user's role:

const int _editColumnIndex = 0;

void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  if(!User.IsInRole("Manager"))    
      grdMovies.Columns[_editColumnIndex].Visible = false;
}