Findcontrol - brain fried!

[eramgarden]

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?

 

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

[LostProgrammer]

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)