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ltlText is unknown directly since it lives in a containing control: your repeater. If you want to get to it you need to iterate over the repeater rows, for example in the ItemDataBound event and there use the FindControl method to find your literal.

Take a look at the sample code in the MSDN documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.repeater.itemdatabound.aspx.

The code you're after might look something like this:

rptHelp_ItemDataBound(Object Sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e) 
{
    if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem) {

        Literal lt = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("ltlText");
        lt.Text = "Test";
    }
}

XIII 2010-08-25 08:53:23

Answer 2

+3 A:

This is because the literal is inside a Repeater. Possibly multiple instances of it are created using the template you provide, so merely referring to it by name is not going to work.

Use something like:

Literal ltlText = (Literal)rptHelp.Items[0].FindControl("ltlText");
// Do stuff with literal

Sorry, not awake enough to convert to VB syntax right now, but hopefully you get the idea.

Rather than accessing the items like this, you will probably want to execute your code while the repeater is doing its work, for example in the OnItemDataBound event handler of your control.

Some more C# code of an example event handler:

protected void rptHelp_OnItemDataBound(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.AlternatingItem || e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item)
    {
        // In this example, the repeater's data source is a DataTable,
        // so each item corresponds to a DataRow
        DataRow row = e.Item.DataItem as DataRow;
        Literal ltlText = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("ltlText");
        // Set literal based on data here
    }
}

Thorarin 2010-08-25 08:54:18

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