Find Control in user control

[Chris]

I have a user control which is dynamically loaded into a placeholder. I have
a formview in the user control

In the page load event of the user control I wand to find a dropdown in the
formview. I always get a null reference. It's really late and I guess it is
something obvious but I can't think. Regards, Chris.

Dim drp As New DropDownList

drp = CType(fvwAcknowlegement.FindControl("drpUploadType"), DropDownList)

drp.Visible = true

 

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I have a user control which is dynamically loaded into a placeholder. I have
a formview in the user control

In the page load event of the user control I wand to find a dropdown in the
formview. I always get a null reference. It's really late and I guess it is
something obvious but I can't think. Regards, Chris.

Dim drp As New DropDownList

drp = CType(fvwAcknowlegement.FindControl("drpUploadType"), DropDownList)

drp.Visible = true

You can't find any form fields in the FormView, as it doesn't directly
contain any form fields. It contains a collection of items, and each
item has it's own set of form fields. You first have to access the
specific item you want, then you can access it's fields.

 

[Chris]

This code works when I put it in the item_created event of the formview.
Moreover this code works, in the page load of the control, when I manually
add the control to the page. It only causes a problem when the control is
added dyanically and I add the code to the page load event of the user
control. I don't understand why the controls seem to be added in a different
order when the user control is added dynamically. It's sort of working but I
would like to know why. Regards, Chris.