CheckBox and Hidden field values not updating inside Repeater - asp.net

I am using a TabContainer control which contains a usercontrol which is dynamically rendered depending upon selected tab. Inside usercontrol I have a repeater which contains a checkbox,label and hidden field. I am updating/changing the values of these fields inside itemdatabound event.
Everything is working fine when page loads first time but after that if I rebind the repeater then only label values are changing and checkbox/hiddenfield containing some old values.
I am not using any updatepanel at all. Please suggest what I am doing wrong.Below is my code snippet inside itemdatabound.
protected void rptrIngrList_ItemDataBound(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
try
{
if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem)
{
SimpleIngredientObject currentItem = e.Item.DataItem as SimpleIngredientObject;
HiddenField hiddenIngrId = (HiddenField)e.Item.FindControl("hdnIngrId");
hiddenIngrId.Value = currentItem.IngredientId.ToString();
HiddenField hdnAltIngrId = (HiddenField)e.Item.FindControl("hdnAltIngrId");
hdnAltIngrId.Value = currentItem.IngrAltId.ToString();
HtmlGenericControl span = (HtmlGenericControl)e.Item.FindControl("abcd");
if (currentItem.UserIngrAvailability == 0 || currentItem.UserIngrAvailability == null)
span.InnerText = GetAvailabilityChar(currentItem.IngrAvailabilityId);
else
span.InnerText = GetAvailabilityChar(currentItem.UserIngrAvailability);
Label lblIngrName = (Label)e.Item.FindControl("LabelIngredientName");
lblIngrName.Text = currentItem.IngredientName;
CheckBox chkIngrUse = (CheckBox)e.Item.FindControl("chkIngrUsage");
// chkIngrUse.Checked = (currentItem.IngrMarked == null) ? false : (currentItem.IngrMarked == true) ? true : false;
chkIngrUse.Checked = Convert.ToBoolean(System.Web.UI.DataBinder.Eval(e.Item.DataItem, "IngrMarked"));
}
}

Could you please share the code where you try to save the data? It seems you are rebinding old values before you save the new form data.

Repeater will only fire ItemDataBound when Databind() has happened - so you have to call databind() on the repeater. So your code will not fire if you have not called Databind() manually. After the datasource is available, it will go through each item and call itemdatabound event. That is why you can see the DataItem value ( which is the object from the datasource).

I had the same problem with an asp:HiddenField inside an asp:repeater.
The issue was : On PostBack, the values inside my asp:Repeater where refreshed with DataBind() in the Page_Load() method instead of the ButtonSearch_click() event method. That's why I was still getting old values in asp:HiddenField and asp:CheckBox of my HTML table.

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I
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On SelectedIndexChanged on the dropDownList call a function that sets the textbox enabled = true. To access controls that have been dynamically added you can use FindControl as per C#, FindControl
I think something like this should help you:
In your page's OnInit event:
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ddl.SelectedIndexChanged += new EventHandler(ddl_SelectedIndexChanged);
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I have a GridView with some BoundFields and two TemplateFields. In these two TemplateFields, I dynamically create UserControls containing a DropDownList and a TextBox, which users can modify.
When I try to get the values of the controls after a PostBack, the values in BoundFields are still there but my dynamic controls disappears. I can create them again but it won't get the user's values... How can I get these values before they're lost?
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Case "String"
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You should create dynamic controls in RowCreated instead of RowDataBound because this event gets fired on every postback whereas RowDataBound only will fire when the GridView gets databound to it's DataSource.
Dynamically created controls must be recreated on every postback with the same ID as before, then they retain their values in the ViewState and events will fire correctly(f.e. a DropDownList's SelectedIndexChanged event).
So you should create them in RowCreated and "fill" them in RowDataBound(f.e. the DropDownList datasource/Items or a TextBox-Text).
I had been using:
EnableViewState="false"
in the GridView attributes. Removing it solved my problem!
I just did
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!(Page.IsPostBack))
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asp:GridView doesn't contain control added in OnRowDataBound

I have problem, I can't get control which I added in DataGrid. I am adding it in OnRowDataBound event like:
protected void RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Row.RowState == DataControlRowState.Edit || e.Row.RowState == (DataControlRowState.Alternate | DataControlRowState.Edit))
{
//int cindex = 0;
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{
DataControlFieldCell dcctl = (DataControlFieldCell)ctl;
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protected void RowUpdating(object sender, GridViewUpdateEventArgs e)
{
grdView.EditIndex = -1;
int counter = 0;
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{
foreach (Control ctl in grdView.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[counter].Controls)
{
And here I will be getting only default one TextBox (with its value). But my TextBox is disappeared! :(
What could you suggest me here to do?
P.S. I can't use predifined columns, like asp:TemplateField in aspx file, because my table has different amount of rows every time. It is dynamic
The issue is that after you dynamically add a control to a page (or any of the page's child controls such as your datagrid) then you must recreate the controls on the server side on postback. If you don't recreate the controls on the server side, then when the runtime processes the postback it will have no idea where to put the contents of the form post.
So essentially when the page is processing the postback, it sees an HTML field called "gridView1_txtComment" (the actual HTML id is probably something else, I know). But the server side code model only has an instance of gridView1, there isn't an instance of a TextBox named txtComment unless you run the RowDataBound method again to create that control.
I think it has to do with ViewState. Make a templated column out of it, then add the second textbox to the template.
I did it!
Refused of dynamically adding controls in OnRowDataBound, and created dynamical TempalteField columns, which were containing needed to me 2 TextBoxes and Label. (With help of http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/create_template_columns.aspx)
But after my problem returned back.. On OnRowUpdating event still was not having my added TextBoxes. Finally I've found here notice http://forums.asp.net/p/1537632/3738331.aspx, that it is needed to implement TempalteField-s adding on Page_Load, that helped me to solve the problem!

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I have a PlaceHolder control inside of a ListView that I am using to render controls from my code behind. The code below adds the controls:
TextBox tb = new TextBox();
tb.Text = quest.Value;
tb.ID = quest.ShortName.Replace(" ", "");
((PlaceHolder)e.Item.FindControl("ph_QuestionInput")).Controls.Add(tb);
I am using the following code to retrieve the values that have been entered into the TextBox:
foreach (ListViewDataItem di in lv_Questions.Items)
{
int QuestionId = Convert.ToInt32(((HiddenField)di.FindControl("hf_QuestionId")).Value);
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}
But it never finds the control. I've looked at the source code for the page and the control i want has the id:
ctl00_cphContentMiddle_lv_Questions_ctrl0_Numberofacres
For some reason when I look at the controls in the ListViewDataItem it has the ClientID:
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Why would it be changing Numberofacres to ctl00? Is there any way to work around this?
UPDATE:
Just to clarify, I am databinding my ListView in the Page_Init event. I then create the controls in the ItemBound event for my ListView. But based on what #Womp and MSDN are saying the controls won't actually be created until after the Load event (which is after the Page_Init event) and therefore are not in ViewState? Does this sound correct?
If so am I just SOL when it comes to retrieving the values in my dynamic controls from my OnClick event?
UPDATE 2:
So i changed the code i had in my Page_Init event from:
protected void Page_Init(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!this.IsPostBack)
{
//databind lv_Questions
}
}
to:
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{
//databind lv_Questions
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And it fixed my problem. Still a little confused as to why I want to databind regardless of whether it's a postback or not but the issue is resolved.
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Seems to me that you need to search for the Placeholder first, and then search it for the textbox.

How to access drop down list from EditItemTemplate of FormView

I have a formview on my aspx page containing various controls arranged using table.
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I have tried following code -
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ddl.Enabled=false;
}
Even I ave used the DataBound event of the same control -
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{
if (FormView1.CurrentMode == FormViewMode.Edit)
{
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Thanks for sharing your time.
Try the ModeChanged event.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.formview.modechanged.aspx
update..
Try this
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