It is definetly ddlMC.SelectedItem.Value.  If I hardcode that value everything works fine.  For some reason it is acting as if there are no values in the dropdown.  If I try to hardcode the selected index as 0 I get a index out of bounds error.  There are valued in my dropdown list though.

Hey!  I see your post now...

Interesting...  It almost sounds like your viewstate is hosed on the return visit.  How and when are you binding items to that DropDownList?

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Will Strohl

Upendo Ventures DNN experts since 2003 Official provider of the Hotcakes Commerce Cloud and SLA support

I believe that Brian indicated in his first post that the problem occurs following the first selection and submission (which would appear to do the redirect correctly) AND THEN CLICKS BROWSER BACK BUTTON and resubmits.  Since this would not be a postback (i.e. IsPostBack would be false), the drop down list is getting rebound to the datasource thus loosing the previous selection.  In the submit button click handler, first check that an item is selected, that is, ddlSMC.SelectedIndex<>-1 or alternatively that  NOT ddlSMC.SelectedItem Is Nothing. If an item is selected then perform the redirect otherwise display a prompt to first select an item.

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