Okay, I have found a suggested C# solution that syntatically ported to VB.NET seemed to look right however getting a Null pointer exception when i try to get data from the control..
Dim details As New objFilingDetails
Dim item As RepeaterItem
For Each item In Repeater1.Items
'the repeater contains datarow views, each row 3 textboxes, 1 label
Dim dtrow As Data.DataRowView = CType(item.DataItem, Data.DataRowView)
'gets to here....mouse over in debug shows item.DataItem is Nothing
'however does show two items in Repeater1.Items
details.Description = (CType(dtrow.Item("txtbx_Documents"), TextBox)).Text
details.FAA_Advance = Decimal.FromOACurrency((CType(dtrow.Item("txtbx_FA AFee"), TextBox)).Text)
details.Aero_Fee = Decimal.FromOACurrency((CType(dtrow.Item("txtbx_Ae roFee"), TextBox)).Text)
details.FAA_Number = (CType(dtrow.Item("lbl_FAANo"), Label)).Text
objFiling.Details.Add(details)
Next
Using a user control as basically 1 label 1 multiline textbox and 2 textboxes
wrote a ItemBound function in the forms codebehind and a setData in the code behind for the control...
Private Sub Repeater1_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.RepeaterItemEventArgs) Handles Repeater1.ItemDataBound
If (e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.Item) Then
CType(e.Item.FindControl("filing"), _
filingControl).SetData(CType(e.Item.DataItem, _
Data.DataRowView), False)
End If
If (e.Item.ItemType = ListItemType.AlternatingItem) Then
CType(e.Item.FindControl("filing"), _
filingControl).SetData(CType(e.Item.DataItem, _
Data.DataRowView), True)
End If
End Sub
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Public Sub SetData(ByVal dr As Data.DataRowView, ByVal IsAlternating As Boolean)
Me.lbl_FAANo.Text = dr("FAA_Number")
Me.txtbx_Documents.Text = dr("Description")
Me.txtbx_FAAFee.Text = FormatCurrency(dr("FAA_Advance"), 2)
Me.txtbx_AeroFee.Text = FormatCurrency(dr("Aero_Fee"), 2)
If IsAlternating Then
Panel1.BackColor = Drawing.Color.LightGoldenrodYellow
End If
End Sub
.................sets great............just can't seem to figure out how to get the data back from the textboxes (user edits) or label without this Null Pointer Exception