I think you should move your code to Form's Load method or Render method.

>Can someone tell me with .NET, when do the control properties become available? With the following code
>

>    Protected Sub Page_init(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Init
>        Dim CurrentRecord As Int32 = Request.QueryString("user_id")
>        Dim i As Int32
>
>        Response.Write(CurrentRecord)               ' For testing
>        Response.Write(VarType(CurrentRecord))      ' For testing
>        Response.Write(FormView1.DataItemCount)     ' For testing
>
>        For i = 0 To FormView1.DataItemCount - 1
>            Response.Write(i)
>            If FormView1.DataKey(i).value = CurrentRecord Then
>                FormView1.PageIndex = "3"           ' For testing
>                Exit For
>            End If
>        Next
>    End Sub
>

>the third response.write produces a 0 even though the formview has several records available to it. Probably my code is wrong but I think I'm getting close. The Formview1.init is set to Page_load.
>
>
>Thanks