Hi All -

I thought I would save myself some time by creating a usercontrol for a commonly used dropdownlist, but it seems like it may be more trouble than its worth. The UC consists simply of a DDL, a SQLdatasource, and a required field validator. I can manage to use it OK when it is placed directly on a form and doesn't need to be bound to any existing data. However I also need to use it inside the edit template of a gridview. In this case I can't figure out how to bind it to the current selected value in the row. The gridview is populated via code behind. I am about ready to abandon this idea unless someone here can illustrate how this is done. (I posted on the MS Forums but so far have not received an answer.)

Thanks