Hi Guys

I'm new here so good day to you all.

I've been staring at and Googling this one for hours without success, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have an aspx page containing a repeater.

I am using the ItemCreated event of the Repeater to either display a asp:Button or asp:Label depending on the contents of one of the fields returned to the repeater by the SQLDataSource.

So far all is good as the data is interogated correctly and either button or label displayed, however, since adding this event to my code behind file i find the error "Object variable or With block variable not set" is returned when I click any button or link on the page.

Code for the event:

Protected Sub Repeater1_ItemCreated(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.RepeaterItemEventArgs) Handles Repeater1.ItemCreated
        If e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Item Or e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.AlternatingItem Then
            Dim lbl As Label = CType(e.Item.FindControl("lblDelivered"), Label)
            Dim btn As Button = CType(e.Item.FindControl("btnDeliver"), Button)
            If e.Item.DataItem("Delivered") = True Then
                lbl.Visible = True
                btn.Visible = False
            Else
                lbl.Visible = False
                btn.Visible = True
            End If
        End If
    End Sub

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this error is returned and how to avoid it?

Thanks in advance

IC

Just de-bugging now boss......

Hi there...

This is a common error. It means that an object is nothing when you are trying to do something with it... can you trace to the line that is failing??? maybe the find control are not finding the control you are looking for? Since you are either displaying a label or a button, are you sure that the other control is rendering to the page?

HTH

Gonzalo

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I suspect the problem lies in this line:

     If e.Item.DataItem("Delivered") = True

The default behavior of repeating data bound controls (repeater, datagrid, gridview, etc) is such that when you post back a page, the control is reconstructed from viewstate. The control's data source is null and thus each item's DataItem is null. All the items of the control are reconstructed purely from viewstate so you are accessing a property (DataItem) that is null on postback.

One option may be to change your code to run in the ItemDataBound event instead of ItemCreated. ItemCreated runs every time a repeating item is created, on data binding or on postback reconstruction. ItemDataBound, as the name suggests, only runs when the item is data bound. When the item is reconstructed it should be done so with the state it was in when rendered so you shouldn't need to even have that code run during a post back anyway. It should need only to run when you do the initial data bind. The visibility of your two controls should be properly restored without the need to set them explicitly.

-Peter
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Peter,

Thank you for your response. I changed the event to the DataBound event and the error no longer occurs

Many thanks again

Ian

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