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Hello
I am using a datarepeater control with VS 2008 SP1 to display photos and information of dogs on a Win Form. I have the dogs picture, and 3 bound text boxes with information associated with the animal. I have a click event handler on the picture that should when click retrieve some information from the text boxes and update a dataset. When I step thru the code though, all of the text boxes are showing empty strings even though there is data in them.

Do I need to reference the controls different?

Private Sub DogPicture_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles DogPicture.Click
        Try
            'Debug.Print(Me.StatusTextBox.Text)
            If Me.StatusTextBox.Text = "OUT" Then
                Me.DogsBindingSource.EndEdit()
                Me.DogsTableAdapter.UpdateStatus("IN", Me.txtDogID.Text)
                Me.DogsTableAdapter.DDogs(Me.DS.Dogs)
            Else
                Me.DogsBindingSource.EndEdit()
                Me.DogsTableAdapter.UpdateStatus("OUT", Me.txtDogID.Text)
                Me.DogsTableAdapter.DDogs(Me.DS.Dogs)
            End If

        Catch ex As Exception

        End Try
    End Sub

Thanks! Ryan

Ryanls Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:40 PM

Hi Ryan,

You can't access the control directly because he actual controls for each RepeaterItem are created at runtime. See John Chen's post here for an explanation of how to reference the controls: http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2009/09/08/writing-event-handler-for-controls-in-a-datarepeateritem.aspx

Hope this helps,

Steve Hoag Microsoft aka the V-Bee