When to Bind?

[Tony Casey]

I have a problem I have spent days on, its a simple thing so it frustrates me on the amount of time taken.

I havea  FormView within an Ajax panel, default mode is View, so when I click the Edit button, I want the form to show my current record so I can change it.

All works fine except, I have a LoadonDemand RadCombo box that is databound in the code behind.

I have two functions, BindCompany( In32 ) and BindCompany( string ), the string version is for ItemsRequested event of the combo and the int version is for when the page loads.

My problem is when do I bind to the combo with the int32, Page_Load , Combo_Load, FormView_ModeChanged, FormView_Load ?

None of these do it for the following reasons...

Page_Load, happens once & the combo doesnt exist because we are in EditMode
Combo_Load, this happens every time the ItemRequested fires so my current companyid might not be in the recordset return
FormView_ModeChanged, I cannot bind at that point because this fires before the control is rendered
FormView_Load, only happens once when the page is rendered & not when I click the edit button.

So, is there something simple I am missing, I really hope so because I am loosing my marbles.

[Tony Casey]

Ive got it,

Set a variable at the top when the FormView loads that holds the currentCompanyId...

In the ComboBox Load set...

 protected void RadComboBoxCompany_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            RadComboBox companyCombo = (RadComboBox)sender;
            if (companyCombo.Text == null || companyCombo.Text == "")
            {
                BindCompanies(currentCompanyId);
            }

        }

In this, I check to see firstly that this is not an ItemRequest, if so, then bind the companies by using the current company id.