Hi all,

I seem to be having a problem acceessing a dropdownlist from the codebehind when it is nested inside a formview's insert template.

I have poured over google and dozens of similar posts for hours and simply can't get it to NOT error. In the following code the Arraylist is built fine, and exactly as i wish for it to be built, i can successfuly use this:

testdropdown.DataSource = filelist;
testdropdown.Databind();

testdropdown is a dropdownlist placed at the end of my aspx not nested inside anything.

However if i have a formview "AddBlockForm" and i try this to access the dropdown called "ChooseLogoDropdown", i dont have a happy ending:

ddl = AddBlockForm.FindControl("ChooseLogoDropdown") as DropDownList;

ddl.DataSource = filelist;
ddl.DataBind();

it errors when at the datasource as far as i can tell. and i can't figure out a way around it no matter what i try, here is the full segment of code, followed by the formview in my aspx, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated !!

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Page_load in codebehind -

DropDownList

I am not suggesting that this is the best method but it works for me:

1) Create a Insert button with the CommandName of "InsertManually"

2) Wire up a method to the "ItemCommand" of the FormView (this method will be fired any time ANY button is clicked on the Form).

3) Put code such as this in that method (here I am using Linq to SQL but you could easily use DAL+ or DAL or whatever):

        protected void LVCarLocations_ItemCommand(object sender, ListViewCommandEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.CommandName == "InsertManually")
            {
                DropDownList ddlDivision = (DropDownList)e.Item.FindControl("ddlDivision");

                CarControlDataContext CarControlDataContext = new CarControlDataContext();

                CarDivMembership CarDivMembership = new CarDivMembership();
                CarDivMembership.DivisionID = ddlDivision.SelectedValue;

                CarControlDataContext.CarDivMemberships.InsertOnSubmit(CarDivMembership);
                CarControlDataContext.SubmitChanges();

            }
        }

Hmm, Michael this may be moreso one for you.

The basics of my little project are a modification of your samples on adef, the tradingpost tutorial to be specific.

now that i have my dropdownbox as follows

<asp:DropDownList ID="ChooseLogoDropdown" runat="server" DataSource='<%# getfiles() %>' Width="100%">

It correctly populates the list with what it is meant to however when i click to submit the form naturally it posts a Null for the field "logo"

for example my title field is a textbox <asp:TextBox ID="TitleTextBox" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("Title") %>'></asp:TextBox></td>, i can see the Bind("Title") must be what connects my form to the Title object? in the info class under the app_code folder. However being that i've modified your work, i of course dont exactly understand it, and have aboslutely no idea how to bind my dropdownlist's selected value to the 'logo' object in the filemaninfo.cs class. Any suggestions?

Many thanks, Charles