>Hi, Çetin!
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>>Thinking you've already tried client side caching (afraid to ask this) might it be you forgot binding?
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>That's a very fair question, it's not beyond me to forget such a thing! <s> However, I hadn't forgotten the binding in this case. Indeed, I have to bind the page first before I can even use FindControl to get the DropDownList object. Thanks, though for taking a look at my problem.

Of course:)
OutputCache in user control didn't work? :(
BTW why are you putting the control in a session var? Wouldn't adding dataset to Cache be better?
Cetin