Hello Iva,

Thanks for writing. I guess, it really depends on the structure of your DataSource. Judging from your aspx markup, you are binding to an XmlDataSource. Could you please paste a small sample of your Xml datasource here, maybe this will provide some clues? Also, can you please try binding a standard asp:GridView control with templated columns to the same datasource and see how it goes?

I have tried something very simple (declarative flat AccessDataSource control + templated columns) and everything worked fine in my case - here is my setup:

<igtbl:UltraWebGrid
    ID="UltraWebGrid1"
    runat="server"
    DataSourceID="AccessDataSource1"
        Height="200px"
    Width="325px">
        <Bands>
            <igtbl:UltraGridBand>
                <Columns>
                    <igtbl:TemplatedColumn>
                        <CellTemplate>                          
                             <asp:Label ID="lblName" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("ProductName", "Your name: {0}") %>'></asp:Label>  
                        </CellTemplate>                   
                    </igtbl:TemplatedColumn>
            ...
        </Columns>
...

 I try to bind the XmlDataSource to a standart asp:GridView and it's working corect.

I made a test project to try grid binding, it isn't my real project, so I also can put the whole project code.

This is the xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Animals>
  <Animal Name="Doc" Color="Gray" />
  <Animal Name="Cat" Color="Brown" />
  <Animal Name="Bird" Color="Blue" />
  <Animal Name="Crocodile" Color="Green" />
</Animals>

I solve my problem with the binding with this code:

<ig:TemplatedColumn IsBound="True" BaseColumnName="Name" Key="Name">
    <CellTemplate>                             
        <asp:Label runat="server" ID="lblName" Text='<%# Container.Cell.Text %>'></asp:Label>
    </CellTemplate>
 </ig:TemplatedColumn>

You can also use

<%# Container.Cell.Row.Cells.FromKey("column2").Value >

to get the value from other column. 

Oh, great find, thanks for sharing. So I guess, UltraWebGrid behaves a little bit differently than the asp:GridView control when using templated columns, so Container.Cell is a good starting point, plus you get all the extra functionality for Row, etc.

By the way, if you are not completely sure which properties/objects are available in your template databinding expressions, you can map values using server-side methods, for example:

<igtbl:templatedcolumn isbound="True" basecolumnname="Name" key="Name">
    <CellTemplate>                                                      
         <asp:Label runat="server" ID="Label1" Text='<%# MapStuff(Container) %>'></asp:Label>
    </CellTemplate>
</igtbl:templatedcolumn>

 public string MapStuff(Infragistics.WebUI.UltraWebGrid.CellItem cellItem)
 {
    // return string depending on custom logic    
 }

This way, you can use the VS 2005/2008 Autocomplete functionality and see all available information for the Container using the VS debugger.