Paul, unfortunately your suggestion doesn't work. When I entered cUserId = Me.Page.RoundPanel1.FindControl("HIddenField1").UniqueId, I got the squiggly blue line under it and when I hovered the mouse over it, it said that RoundPanel1 is not a member of class Page. This is so frustrating! Everything I try fails. It shouldn't be this difficult, should it?

Dana

>>Paul, thank you...would you happen to have the vb.net translation of this? I am really trying to find my way around. I have one hidden field and the rest are textbox controls. It stops on the first one. I have tried your suggestion but in vb.net, inside the class but before the Page_Load as follows:
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>>Public cUserId As String = ""
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>>Then inside the Page_Load just before the SqlDataSource1.Select() command:
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>>cUserId = Me.Page.FindControl("HiddenField1").UniqueID
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>>Before I tried it all in one swipe at the top. I get the same error either way, at the place where I try to assign the UniqueID, no matter where that is.
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>Public ReadOnly Property SomeControlUniqueID As String
>   Get
>       Return Me.SomeControlName.UniqueID
>   End Get
>End Property
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>FindControl isn't recursive - so if HiddenField1 is inside of another control (for example, a UserControl, or in your case it sounds like the control the adds the rounded edges), you need to call the FindControl on it instead, ex.
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>   cUserId = Me.Page.NameOfRoundedControl.FindControl("HiddenField1").UniqueID
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