find control returns null value??

Hiii,

I am using a dropdown list in an gridview under edit item template,
I want to acess that for that i use

if(e.Row .RowType ==DataControlRowType .DataRow )
{
DropDownList ddlsd;
ddlsd =e.Row .FindControl ("ddl1") as DropDownList ;
if(ddlsd !=null)
{
classs(ddlsd);

}

but it returns null values and it generates error ,

Any body hav a solutions plzz post ur reply as soon as possible.

One thing more I am not using update item

thanks

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Finding DropdownList in GridView1_RowDataBound Event
Answered By Moderator1 on 12/18/2009 9:44:33 PM


Hi, For C#, you can try like this, DropDownList ddlsd = (DropDownList)e.Row.FindControl("ddlsd"); Make sure the ID is same as you passed in FindControl method.

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