I have a datalist that has four labels. The text property of these labels are bound to personalized functions (see below). How can I get access to the controls inside the DataList (the labels) so that I can add them to another control to render to Excel?

My DataList:

<asp:DataList ID="DataList2" runat="server" DataSourceID="KnightsDataSource1">
                    <HeaderTemplate>
                        <div style="width:60px; float:left"><asp:Label ID="Label5" runat="server" Text="" Font-Bold="true" Font-Underline="true" ></asp:Label></div>
                        <div style ="width:60px; float:left"><asp:Label ID="Label7" runat="server" Text="" Font-Bold="true" Font-Underline="true" ></asp:Label></div>
                        <div style ="width:40px; float:left"><asp:Label ID="Label8" runat="server" Text="Hrs" Font-Bold="true" Font-Underline="true" ></asp:Label></div>
                        <div style="width:40px; float:left"><asp:Label ID="Label9" runat="server" Text="Mins" Font-Bold="true" Font-Underline="true" ></asp:Label></div>
                    </HeaderTemplate>
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <div style="clear:left; float:left; width:60px"><asp:Label ID="Label3" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("fname") %>'></asp:Label></div>
                        <div style="float:left; width:60px"><asp:Label ID="Label7" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("lname") %>' ></asp:Label></div>
                        <div style="float:left; width:40px"><asp:Label ID="Label6" runat="server" Text='<%# EventStruct.CalculateHours(Eval("total")) %>'></asp:Label></div>
                        <div style="float:left; width:40px"><asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text='<%# EventStruct.CalculateMinutes(Eval("total")) %>'></asp:Label> </div>
                    </ItemTemplate>
                </asp:DataList>

Functions:

Public Shared Function CalculateHours(ByVal total As Object) As Integer
        Dim returnInt As Integer = 0
        If total IsNot DBNull.Value Then
            returnInt = (total / 60) - 0.5
        End If
        Return returnInt
    End Function

    Public Shared Function CalculateMinutes(ByVal total As Object) As Integer
        Dim returnInt As Integer = 0
        If total IsNot DBNull.Value Then
            returnInt = total Mod 60
        End If
        Return returnInt
    End Function

Im still new to ASP.NET but basically as far as i know you have to use the findcontrol on the datalist so something like:

Dim lbl as new label = datalist2.findcontrol("label5")
Dim lbltext as string = lbl.text

Or something along those lines..