Hello.

  I'm writing this small web app that uses a web control I wrote inside of the "EditItemTemplate" portion of an ItemTemplate in a DetailsView. I got all the data binding working correctly. The web control I wrote depends on its own Page_Load to do the initialisation code, which must be run once (and only once) so it is wrapped in the usual "if !Ispostback ..." clause, the control's Page_Load is called by way of AutoEventWireup="true" property in the control.

  My problem is the control never evaluates the code, because IsPostBack is always true, even the first time the control is loaded into the DetailsView.

  I have tested the control outside of the detailsview and it works beautifully. Even on the same page, I have an instance of my control that does execute the page_load code, yet the one inside the EditItemTemplate in the DetailsView has this weird behaviour.

  Does anybody know what's going on? am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance

Well, I never was able to figure out why ispostback is allways true when a control resides inside the editItemTemplate, so what I did in the end was just cheaply fix this in page_load by calling init code in case it found the controls weren't populated yet.

Hope this helps someone

found an interesting link related to this: http://blogs.clearscreen.com/enadan/...2/21/2838.aspx

Don't controls have their own method of initialisation?

Try populate it in the Initialize() method, and not the Page_Load.

Hi DZukiewicz

I tried your method, and it works. I followed your advice and put the initialisation code at Page_Init and it's all good now.

Thanks a lot. Kind regards,

elmemo