DropDownList not being found

[Kyle]

Hello all,

I'm trying to put a DropDownList in my EditForm, and populate it in the ItemCommand method. Existing codebehind is like this:

GridEditFormItem item = (GridEditFormItem)(e.Item as GridDataItem).EditFormItem;
                DropDownList ddlTeams = (DropDownList)item.FindControl("ddlTeams");
                ddlTeams.DataSource = GetTeamsDS();
                ddlTeams.DataTextField = "TeamName";
                ddlTeams.DataValueField = "TeamName";
                ddlTeams.DataBind();

My problem is that the FindControl() method isn't actually finding the control. I'm 100% sure everything is named the same, and I've used this method on other types of controls (listBox, Label, Button, etc.) but when I'm using it on the DDL it just fails. Should I be doing this in another method? or is there a way to make it work here? 

[Shinu]

Hello,

Try populate the DropDownList in ItemDataBound event.
C#:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
  if (e.Item is GridEditableItem && e.Item.IsInEditMode)
  {
    GridEditableItem item = (GridEditableItem)e.Item;
    DropDownList ddlTeams = (DropDownList)item.FindControl("ddlTeams");
    //populate the DropDownList here
  }
}

-Shinu.

[Kyle]

this works. Thank you very much!