In the one article that comes up in google,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsformslistviewitemclassclonetopic.asp
I see:

ListViewItem.Clone()

has promise - but there is no example.

I tried a basic

DropDownList Doug = ListViewItem.Clone(ddl);

But no joy - anyone know the correct way to implement this functionality?
TIA,
Doug
>All,
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>I have a dropdown which I populate through a call to SQL server via a SqlDatareader. It has approximately 1100 entries.
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>Can I instantiate 1 control and 'clone' 4 more?
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>If I cannot do that, what strategy are people using to populate controls with multiple instantiations on a page?
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>I could pull down a DataSet, push it into a ViewState or a Session variable, and use this to populate all controls since the data is static.
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>Or should I pull the Data into an XML dataisland and let the information be cached and reused?
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>What technique is everyone using to accomplish this?
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>TIA,
>Doug