using FormView to insert

Question

I have a formview control, and on the ItemCreated event, I am "priming" some of the fields with default values.

However, when I try to use the formview to insert, before the ItemInserting event gets called, for some reason it calls ItemCreated first. That results in the fields being over-written with the default values right before the insert happens.

How do I get it to not call the ItemCreated event before the ItemInserting event?

Answer 1

you need to use formview Databound event instead of formview ItemCreated event to set values, try like

protected void frm_DataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (frm.CurrentMode == FormViewMode.Edit)//whatever your mode here is.
    {
        TextBox txtYourTextBox = (TextBox)frm.FindControl("txtYourTextBox");
        txtYourTextBox.Text// you can set here your Default value
    }
}

Also check this thread of similare issue FormView_Load being overwritten C# ASP.NET