Brian,

Here's what I've recommended to others in this situation. Check out,

http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2003_04/magazine/columns/aspnet/

It's a kind of complicated way to add user controls dynamically, but for maintaining state it works great. I was stuck on this very same thing several months ago and this saved the day. Unfortunately, at the time, I was simply researching how to do this for future use and I haven't revisited the concept since then ... so I don't remember squat about it ... except that it worked how I needed it to work.

~~Bonnie


>I am having some difficulty working with dynamically-added user controls and maintaining their viewstate. Hopefully someone can help me out...
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>I have a web form on which I have an "Add" button that adds a specific user control to a Panel whenever it's clicked. That is, it creates multiple instances of the same user control. The user control contains various web controls, such as textboxes and dropdown lists. I seem to have figured out how to add the user controls dynamically, but only the textboxes maintain their state, not the dropdowns. When I choose an item from a dropdown in one of the user controls, then click "Add" to create another user control, the dropdown value I chose goes away.
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>I have EnableViewState on for ALL the dropdowns in the user control. What could be happening? Does anyone have some sample code where you're doing the same thing?