Can you nest a datarepeater in a datarepeater

[scuzymoto]

I have a table whose records I want to display in a highly formatted way. The datarepeater works great for this, have used it many times. I am in a scenario now however that requires me to not only display records from that table but sub records from a child table. I instantly thought, no problem Ill just nest another repeater. Come data binding time however I didn't know how to go about it since the child records are based on a index key that is not known until the first repeater runs. Anyone know a good way to do this?

[dj4uk]

What you need to do is execute the databind of the child repeater within the OnItemDataBound event of the parent repeater. Give a shout if you need more info.

DJ

[scuzymoto]

How do I declare and initialize the second datarepeater. I added the code for a second datarepeater in the event as described. But the code did not recognize it. So I tried adding it to the declaration list like this...

Protected WithEvents Repeater2 As System.Web.UI.WebControls.Repeater

This made the red lines go away in my code but when I compiled it and tried to run it I still got the following error on that line.

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.