Findcontrol - brain fried!

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eramgarden

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Cant find examples of what i want to do:

I have a repeater "rpAct". It has a dropdownlist in it "ddlActTypes"...

I want to bind data to this dropdownlist but first I need to find the control

I've tried you name it and find this control in Repeater. Tried onItemDataBound, etc. This is what I have and the control comes out as Nothing.

What am I missing?

Code: 
 Dim dr As SqlDataReader = cmd.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection)

 [b] Dim ddl As New DropDownList()
  ddl = CType(rpAct.FindControl("ddlActTypes"), DropDownList)[/b]

  While dr.Read
    Dim newListItem As New ListItem()
     newListItem.Value = dr.GetValue(0)
     newListItem.Text = dr.GetString(1)
     [b]ddl.Items.Add(newListItem)[/b] 'FAILS HERE
        End While
 
use the item property of the event args. then use findcontrol.
e.item.findcontrol("cntrl")
or iterate through the datalist and retrieve the controls by indexing the item
ddl = item.controls(0)
 
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