Kevin,

The properties are set correctly. When steping through the code after the "HookSetDefaultValues", textbox controls bind but the dropdownlists do not.
I'm working code to trigger the bind event for dropdownlist after NewRow and "HookSetDefaultValues"

Terry




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>>I have tried to set the value for a web dropdownlist control in the "HookSetDefaultValues" and can not get it to work. There seems to a problem in the binding!
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>Have you set the control's BindingValueSource and BindingValueSourceMember properties as shown in the MM .NET Dev Guide topic "Data Binding Web Forms List Controls"?
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>Regards,