I'm sorry..
The repeater loads with the correct amount of records. Each record needs to have a dropdown associated with it which I am using the separate stored proc to populate.
The dropdowns are empty when the page loads. Thats the only issue.

So many more questions to be asked and answered....

Did you debug the code?
What happens when you debug it?
Is Repeater1_ItemCreated being triggered?
Does e.Item.FindControl("ddlOrdinal") result in a valid control reference?
Does objDDL have a valid selected value?
Is your data access code firing correctly?
Is the right data passed to the database?
Is the right data returned from the database?

And so on and so forth....

In other words: impossible for me to answer without relevant information.

My advice: set a breakpoint in Repeater1_ItemCreated (press F9), debug the application (press F5) and see how it behaves. Step through the code line by line and see what happens....

Imar


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I did debug through the code. WHen I get to objDDL.DataSource = dtr I placed the mouse over the dtr and it showed hasrows = true, fieldcount=2, recordsaffected =-1.
Is there anyway I can display the result of the datareader before I set it to the dropdown to make sure data is returned?

I am not getting any errors, the dropdowns are all just completely empty.

If HasRows is true, it's safe to say the reader has data. So, the problem must be elsewhere.

Is the code triggered for the right ItemTypes? Is the code called too often so you override the exiting items with an empty list? Is objDDL holding a reference to the correct DropDownList? What happens when you manually add an item to the DropDownList directly after the call to DataBind? Does that item end up in the list?

Again, since I don't have the whole code, can't see what you've posted because the page is way too wide to read and can't try out your code as I don't have your database, I can only ask questions, not recommend a true fix.


Imar


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I do something similar. Here is what I do.

In my form_load event, I create a DataSet (Dim ds as DataSet) and fill that with data from my webservice.

In the RepeaterId_ItemDataBound event I bind my dropdownlist (ddlVendor) to my DataSet, and set the DataValueField, DataTextField:

Dim vendorList As DropDownList = CType(e.Item.FindControl("ddlVendor"), DropDownList)
        vendorList.DataTextField = "vsNoName"
        vendorList.DataValueField = "vsmSupplierID"
        vendorList.DataSource = ds
        vendorList.DataBind()