ASP 2.0 Problem with Nesting User Control containing a GridView within a DataList

[s.gregory]

My page layout is like this:

Page

DataList (databound using ObjectDataSourc e1 contained in page)

Items

UserContro l
GridView (databound using another ObjectDataSourc e2 contained in UserControl)

So I've basically got a GridView (wrapped in a UserControl), that is
nested within a DataList. Representing a fairly simple relational data
structure (see bottom of post).

In ASP 1.x I would then pass the ID's that are required to lookup the
GridView data to the child UserControl in the DataList_ItemDa taBound
event in order for it to know what to render.

Attempting this in ASP 2.0 gives me problems, because when the
UserControl is created by the datalist, it automatically invokes the
GridView's databinding (straight after the Page_Load of the
UserControl) BEFORE the ID's needed to perform the rowset lookup have
had a chance to be passed in by the parent DataList.

If I do this without the UserControl, it works (i.e. if I put
ObjectDataSourc e2 and the GridView directly into the parent DataList).
But this obviously isn't what I want!!

Has anybody got any ideas on how to get back the control that has
seemingly been taken away from me?

Surely it's possible to stop this automatic databinding from
happening?!!

FYI Data Structure:

There are three main tables related to this scenario:

ServiceTypes (PK ID)
Services (PK ID, FK ServiceTypeID)
UserServices (PK GUID, FK ServiceID, UserGUID)

The DataList is bound to the ServiceTypes table with no filter (via
ObjectDataSourc e1).
The ServiceTypes PK (ID) is passed to the UserControl (along with a
UserGUID), to perform the following filter on the UserServices Table
(via ObjectDataSourc e1):

"[UserGUID] = '" & uiUserGUID.ToSt ring & "' AND
Parent(Services ServiceUsers).[ServiceTypeID] = " &
iServiceTypeID. ToString

Both ObjectDataSourc es are pointing to a custom business object that
I've written to wrap & manage a strongly typed dataset (another thing
I've had to resort to in order to get this stuff to work properly, as I
can't seem to get anywhere by binding directly to it!!!)


I'm really trying to give all these new databinding controls the
benefit of the doubt, but I keep coming across major restrictions
whichever way I turn. It's obviously very simple to set up a basic grid
for editing a flat table, but nearly all of the scenarios I come across
are so much more complicated than that, but seem to be much more
difficult to do than ASP 1.x, within the confines of the new
databinding structure of ASP 2.0!