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    <p>Greetings!</p> <p>I'm looking for some advice regarding an approach to displaying data in a FormView based on a selection of a DropDownList within that FormView control. For example, I have a UserControl with the following:</p> <pre><code>&lt;asp:XmlDataSource ID="xdsMyXmlData" runat="server" EnableCaching="false" XPath="Root/Membership" /&gt; &lt;asp:FormView ID="fvwMyFormView" runat="server" DataSourceID="xdsMyXmlData"&gt; &lt;ItemTemplate&gt; &lt;div&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;%# XPath("Title") %&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;fieldset&gt; &lt;asp:DropDownList ID="ddlMemberTypes" runat="server" DataSource='&lt;%# XPathSelect("MenuItems/*") %&gt;'&gt;&lt;/asp:DropDownList&gt; &lt;/fieldset&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;thead&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;%# XPath("Columns/Name") %&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;%# XPath("Columns/Age") %&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;%# XPath("Columns/DateJoined")%&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/thead&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;asp:Repeater ID="rptMembershipInfo" runat="server" DataSource='&lt;%# XPathSelect("Members/*") %&gt;'&gt; &lt;ItemTemplate&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;&lt;%# XPath("Data/Name") %&gt;&lt;/th&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;%# XPath("Data/Age") %&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;%# XPath("Data/DateJoined") %&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/ItemTemplate&gt; &lt;/asp:Repeater&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/ItemTemplate&gt; &lt;/asp:FormView&gt; </code></pre> <p>The UserControl's OnLoad() looks like this so far:</p> <pre><code>protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e) { base.OnLoad(e); string l_XmlData = MyControllerClass.GetMembershipTableXml(0); xdsMyXmlData.Data = l_XmlData; } </code></pre> <p>I would like to be able to pass the value of the DropDownList's selected item into GetMembershipTableXml() in order to retrieve the corresponding XML and then use it to populate the values of the FormView. What would the best way be to do this? Doing a Response.Redirect back to the current page using the selected DropDownList value as a query string variable? I'm hoping there's a better approach. What do you think?</p>
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