Hi again

I'm embarking on something new, the AddHandler, and I'm not having much joy. I'm therefore hoping that someone can help me with this and tell me what I'm doing wrong (or missing out) to make the AddHandler work within my control. (I have scoured the web high and low and can't find anything which helps or explains the AddHandler in an example that I can get to work!).

Here is what I am trying to do (theoretically): I've created a control, which gets available Room Types from a database and populates a dropdown list. Once the dropdown list is populated, I want the user to be able to select a specific room type, and for it then to query my database for that specific room type.

However, because I couldn't seem to get the control to raise the event at all, I simplified my code to a simple Response.write (on SelectIndexChanged) or a simple Response.Redirect (on Click) - as you'll see in the code below (need to emphasize that the code below is not my final intended code, I want it to do something more beyond writing or redirecting...)

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Public Class RoomType
  Inherits Control

  Private tcode As New TourCodes
  Private _strTourCode As String
  Private _ddlRoomTypes As New DropDownList ' The dropdown list
  Private dlistRooms As DataList

  Public Sub New()
  End Sub

  Protected Overrides Sub CreateChildControls()
    With _ddlRoomTypes
      .id = "ddlRoomTypes"
      .AutoPostBack = True
      .datasource = data.getDDRoomTypes
      .DataTextField = "Key"
      .dataValueField = "Value"
      .DataBind()
    End With
    AddHandler _ddlRoomTypes.SelectedIndexChanged, AddressOf ddlRoomTypes_Changed
    Controls.Add(_ddlRoomTypes)

    Dim btnClickme As New Button 'couldn't get dropdown to work so I added a
      btnClickme.id = "btnClickme" 'button and attempted to get that to work
      btnClickme.Text="Click here"
    AddHandler btnClickme.Click, AddressOf ddlRoomTypes_Clicked
    Controls.Add(btnClickme)
  End Sub

  Private Sub ddlRoomTypes_Changed(Sender As Object, E As EventArgs)
    Current.Response.Write("hello")
  End Sub

  Private Sub ddlRoomTypes_Clicked(Sender As Object, E As EventArgs)
    Current.Response.Redirect("hello.htm")
  End Sub

  Protected Overrides Sub Render(writer As HtmlTextWriter)
    writer.write("<div class=""lboxhead"">")
    writer.write("Rooms")
    writer.write("</div>")

    writer.write("<div class=""lboxmain"">")
    writer.write("Use the dropdown below to select a specific room type<br />")
    FindControl("ddlRoomTypes").RenderControl(writer)
    writer.write("<br /><br />")
    FindControl("btnClickme").RenderControl(writer)
    writer.write("</div>")
  End Sub

End Class

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As ever, I will be eternally grateful for any advice or help, and even more grateful when I can get it to work!

Thanks
Shane

I believe my answer could lie here:
http://authors.aspalliance.com/artic...icbuttons.aspx

and that because my dropdown (and button) is created dynamically, there is no reference to them when the page loads (to add the event)? Does this sound correct?

Thanks