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VS.NET: DropDownList in EditItemTemplate of DataGrid Messages   Related Types This message was discovered on ASPFriends.com 'aspngdatagridrepeaterdatalist' list. TBrewi@aol.com -- Copied from [aspngvs] to [aspngdatagridrepeaterdatalist] by Tony Stark <Click here to reveal e-mail address> -- Is this not possible? I'm trying to bind text and values to a DrowDownList that's in an EditItemTemplate of a DataGrid. There's no compile errors or warning. But at run-time I get "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" on the line where I set the DrowDownList DataSource. If I move the DrowDownList out of the EditItemTemplate to some other part of the page, the data binds successfully. There's something strange about this DrowDownList... When I first added the DrowDownList to the EditItemTemplate, VS did not automatically add a declaration for the DrowDownList in the code-behind like it always does with other controls. Then when I manually declared the DrowDownList in the code-behind, the page's design view started showing "Error creating control", saying that there is already a component with this name. I always blame myself first when something goes wrong, but this is looking more and more like a bug in VS. Can anyone tell me how I can get this to work? Thanks! -- Tim :) Timothy M. Brewi Reply to this message...        TBrewi@aol.com Jesudas, Thank you very much! Your article was VERY helpful. The dropdownlist in my datagrid is working perfectly now. I may have misunderstood, but the article SEEMS to have two errors: (1) The attribute for data value field should be... <asp:DropDownList id="cboState" DataSource="<%# BindState() %>" DataTextField="Statename" DataValueField="Statename" runat="server" /> instead of... <asp:DropDownList id="cboState" DataSource="<%# BindState() %>" DataTextFiel d="Statename" DataTextValue="Statename" runat="server" /> (2) The BindState function should be declared... Protected Function BindState() instead of... Private Function BindState() If it's declared Private, the you get a compilation error on the HTML page saying that the function is "not accessible in this context because it is private". Thank you again for your helpful article! -- Tim :) Timothy M. Brewi <clip> [Original message clipped] Reply to this message...        Das Ofcourse, this is possible. Read my article DataGrid and DropDownLists http://aspalliance.com/das/dgcombo.aspx" target="_blank">http://aspalliance.com/das/dgcombo.aspx which talks about the same issue that you have described. :-) Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Co-Author - Beginning ASP.NET Databases using VB.NET http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861006195 Read my articles on ASP .NET at http://aspalliance.com/das ----- Original Message ----- From: <Click here to reveal e-mail address> To: "aspngDataGridRepeaterDatalist" <Click here to reveal e-mail address> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 2:47 PM Subject: [aspngdatagridrepeaterdatalist] VS.NET: DropDownList in EditItemTemplate of DataGrid > -- Copied from [aspngvs] to [aspngdatagridrepeaterdatalist] by Tony Stark <Click here to reveal e-mail address> -- [Original message clipped] Reply to this message...        Das Thanks for the suggestions. Let me look into this. I am not sure how did I missed these stuffs. Now, I have updated my article with another aspect with: "Presetting items in a dropdownlist which is in the edit mode of the datagrid" http://aspalliance.com/das/dgcombo.aspx" target="_blank">http://aspalliance.com/das/dgcombo.aspx :-) Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Co-Author - Beginning ASP.NET Databases using VB.NET http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861006195 Read my articles on ASP .NET at http://aspalliance.com/das ----- Original Message ----- From: <Click here to reveal e-mail address> To: "aspngDataGridRepeaterDatalist" <Click here to reveal e-mail address> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 3:32 AM Subject: [aspngdatagridrepeaterdatalist] VS.NET: DropDownList in EditItemTemplate of DataGrid [Original message clipped] Reply to this message...     System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGrid System.Web.UI.WebControls.DropDownList System.Windows.Forms.DataGrid Ad MBR BootFX Best-of-breed application framework for .NET projects, developed by Matthew Baxter-Reynolds and MBR IT

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