Partial good news, I found an event that would give me the proper value for the DataItemCount. It is the PreRender Event of the FormView1. However now I am having trouble with the syntax of commands in the loop. It isn't clear which items should be indexed by the counter "i". I have tried all the variations I can think of for DataKey(i), DataKey.Item(i), and DataKey.Value without much luck. Does anyone know the proper way to form this loop?




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