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I added a couple of fields manually in my ASPX page which is actually holding a FormView. By manually, I mean by directly typing code in the Markup editor.
Now when I'm trying to access those controls in the code behind, nothing comes up in intellisense.
I deleted the designer.cs file and right clicked the ASPX page and chose Convert to web application, still no go.
The designer file's got the FormView control defined alright, but nothing about its child controls.
Do I really need to use FindControl to get this working ? Tell me if you need some code posted because at the moment maybe I'm just a bit confused about ASP.NET is actually working (or not at this moment).
Here's the markup code:
<%# Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.Master" AutoEventWireup="True" CodeBehind="WebForm_PatientForm.aspx.cs" Inherits="WebAppWalkthrough.WebForm_PatientForm" Title="Employee form" %>
<%# MasterType VirtualPath="~/Site.Master" %>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="HeadContent" runat="server">
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">
<asp:FormView ID="PatientForm" runat="server" DefaultMode="Edit">
<EditItemTemplate>
<table>
<tr>
<td class="FormViewHeader">
Patient Name:
</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="PatientName" ReadOnly="true" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("FullName") %>'></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="FormViewHeader">
Patient ID:
</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="PatientID" ReadOnly="true" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("patientid") %>'></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="FormViewHeader">
Eligibility
</td>
<td>
<asp:DropDownList runat="server" ID="Eligibility" SelectedValue='<%# Bind("service_executive_eligibility") %>' >
<asp:ListItem Value="" Text="N/A" />
<asp:ListItem Value="True" Text="Yes" />
<asp:ListItem Value="False" Text="No" />
</asp:DropDownList>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton2" runat="server" OnCommand="UpdatePatientInfo" Text="UpdateInfo" CommandArgument='<%# Bind("patientid") %>'>Update</asp:LinkButton>
<asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton3" runat="server" OnCommand="CancelEditPatient" CommandName="CancelUpdate" Text="CancelInfo">Cancel</asp:LinkButton>
</EditItemTemplate>
<InsertItemTemplate>
<table>
<tr>
<td class="FormViewHeader">
Employee First Name:
</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="FirstName" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="FormViewHeader">
Employee Last Name:
</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="LastName" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="FormViewHeader">
Email address:
</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="EmailAddress" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="FormViewHeader">
Work phone number:
</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="PhoneNumber" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="FormViewHeader">
Eligibility
</td>
<td>
<asp:DropDownList runat="server" ID="Eligibility">
<asp:ListItem Value="True" Text="Yes" />
<asp:ListItem Value="False" Text="No" />
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</td>
</tr>
</table>
<asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton5" runat="server" OnCommand="AddEmployee" Text="Add Employee">Add</asp:LinkButton>
</InsertItemTemplate>
</asp:FormView>
</asp:Content>
Even if I add the controls manually in the designer file, I get a null reference error in the code behind at run time (even if intelisense picks up FirstName the object is null at runtime).
EDIT: I will try installing VS2010 SP1 and this hotfix I found and post the results.
EDIT 2: So I installed VS2010 SP1 which didn't solve the issue. I could not install the hotfix as my system is x64.
So I ditched VS2010 and tried with VS2013, which still doesn't pickup the markup controls.
Even Page.FindControl("ControlName") returns null. Something is very rotten with that webpage or VS2013...
Thanks.

I encountered a problem that seems similar with Telerik UI components for WebForms before. I wanted to access items that were defined inside of a template in a grid, but unfortunately the only way to do that was to dig into child elements of that grid. That inner elements were not present in the designer.cs file as well.
I am not sure about that, but it can be a common behavior of nested elements in WebForms.

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