I can not successfully create a control in an Item Template.

1). Add a new page to an existing project.
2). Add between the form tags in the html page view:
<table height="100%" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="100%" align="left" border="0">
<tr>
<td style="HEIGHT: 21px">&nbsp;
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td vAlign="top" noWrap align="left" width="100%">
</asp:DataList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

3). In the design page view add a DataList.
4). Right click on the datalist and click on Edit Template, Item templage.
5). Drag a button from the Web Forms of the Toolbox into the Item Template.
6). Run it and close the Visual Studio .NET.

On opening it look at the code page. The button has not been declared. This always indicates that "Error creating -----" Type of Control will occur further on.

What am I doing wrong?



Sandy

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Sandy

I understood there was a problem with VS.NET declaring Web User Controls that had been added. Is this also a known problem?

Sandy

What do you mean by 'This always indicates that "Error creating -----" Type of Control will occur further on.'?

If I understand what you are asking, it's not really a problem. When you add a control to an item template of any repeating control (datagrid, datalist, repeater) the control should NOT be declared in the code because the control is repeated and thus can not be accessibly by a single instance. You have to access these controls thru their parent control (i.e. the repeating list items that are generated).

Peter
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