Nested Web Controls

Hi!
To create a special report, I have to use nested Repeaters as below:

<asp:Repeater ID="rpt1" Runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>

  <asp:Repeater ID="rpt2" Runat="server">
   <ItemTemplate>
   </ItemTemplate>
  </asp:Repeater>

  .
  .
  .

</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

But I may not call the inner Repeater through my code. Therefore it is impossible to set the Data Source and the other properties of rpt2. Please help me.

Regards!
M.Sadegh Samiei

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Nested Web Controls

Eye5600

True... you cannot access it normally. However, you can do this:

Create an evenhandler for the ItemDataBound event and place the following code:

protected void rp1_ItemDataBound(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
  Repeater rp = (Repeater)e.Item.FindControl("rp2");
  if (rp != null)
  {
   rp.DataSource = table2;
   rp.DataBind();
  }

}

That should do the trick!

Nested Web Controls

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