Well, I moved it back to the Load event and also tried it in the PreRender event (I couldn't find the Render event) all with the same result. The DataItemCount comes up 0 and the loop never executes. Perhaps the problem is with the code and not the location?
Paul - Thanks for the graphic. I will have to get more familiar with .NET before it will be of much help but I'm sure it will come in handy.


>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