>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I am wanting to add a usercontrol programatically to a
placeholder's control
>collection. The placeholder is coded within the
ITEMTEMPLATE of a datalist.
>The problem that I am facing, is that when I render the
page, the
>placeholder variable (that I have declared as per the ID
of the placeholder
>control), is throwing an error of object not set. When I
do a watch on the
>placeholder variable, it's value is NOTHING, implying
that it has not been
>tied to the actual control.
>
>I have checked and rechecked to ensure that the variable
name is the same as
>the control's ID. I have tried creating other controls
within the
>ITEMTEMPLATE, and the same thing happens - they do not
instantiate with the
>page's render. I thought that perhaps they only
instantiate once the
>datalist item object is created, so inspected the state
within the
>datalist.itemcreated event - same thing.
>
>Am slowly losing hope - any help would be great.
>
>Cheers
>
>Chris
>
>
>.