Fidcontrol usercontrol in ItemCommand

[David]

I have a stand alone form used for time entry.  i display entries in a radgrid.  intead of using the pop up edit form, I just want to prefill some values in my user control to do the edit.   I cannot seem to find the control with this code.  i have definitely verified the names are correct.  It says  u  is nothing then errors when I try to find a drop down list.

Protected Sub rgTimeslips_ItemCommand(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As GridCommandEventArgs) Handles rgTimeslips.ItemCommand


     LogID = e.Item.OwnerTableView.DataKeyValues(e.Item.ItemIndex)("KeyID")
     DocID = e.Item.OwnerTableView.DataKeyValues(e.Item.ItemIndex)("SONumber")
     Label7.Text = LogID & "," & DocID


     pnlForm.Visible = True
     pnlLogGrid.Visible = False


     'set values of Time Entry user control
     Dim u As UserControl = TryCast(FindControl("TimeEntry2"), UserControl)
     Dim ddlso As DropDownList = TryCast(u.FindControl("ddlSO"), DropDownList)
     ddlso.SelectedValue = DocID
     Dim SOLogKeyID As HiddenField = TryCast(u.FindControl("SOLogKeyID"), HiddenField)
     Dim TimeSlipKeyID As HiddenField = TryCast(u.FindControl("TimeSlipKeyID"), HiddenField)
     If DocID = 0 Then
         SOLogKeyID.Value = "0"
         TimeSlipKeyID.Value = LogID
     Else
         SOLogKeyID.Value = LogID
         TimeSlipKeyID.Value = "0"
     End If
     ddlso.Enabled = False



 End Sub