How do I reference a child control withing main form?

[Guest]

Hello,

I have DetailsView control called "EmployeeDetails" with a bunch of fields,
one of thos is button called "btnAddEmployee" inside ItemTemplate . How do I
get access to properties of that button from within a main page?
Page.FindControl("btnAddEmployee") does not work,
EmployeeDetails.FindControl("btnAddEmployee") also returns null. I'm trying
to set those values in Page_PreRender event.

 

[Josh]

I have DetailsView control called "EmployeeDetails" with a bunch of

fields,
one of thos is button called "btnAddEmployee" inside ItemTemplate . How
do I
get access to properties of that button from within a main page?
Page.FindControl("btnAddEmployee") does not work,
EmployeeDetails.FindControl("btnAddEmployee") also returns null. I'm
trying
to set those values in Page_PreRender event.

Its normal practice to access those controls on postback or in itemdatabound
event.

But if you really must get to it from the page you should be able to access
the Items collection, each item has a FindControl.

 

[Guest]

Which Items I need to scroll through to find control? EmployeeDetails has
only 1 child control in DataBound() event even though I can see DetailsView
rendered properly on a page with all the fields in place.