My existing application creates the controls in code and add them to the toolbar so I want to create the controls and add them to the templates:

        chkShowDescendantRecords = New CheckBox
        With chkShowDescendantRecords
            .AutoPostBack = True
            .CssClass = CssClass.ToolBarCheckBox
            .ID = "chkShowDescendantRecords"
            .Text = "Show Descendant Records"
            .LabelAttributes.Add("hideFocus", "true")
            .Checked = GetSessionBoolean(SessionVariable.ExplorerShowDescendants)
        End With
        WebDataMenu1.Templates.Item(0).Controls.Add(chkShowDescendantRecords)

The code runs ok but the checkbox control does not appear in the webdatamenu. 

Is there away to get this to work?

Thanks 

Andy

I define the dropdownlist controls in the aspx.

      <ig:WebDataMenu ID="WebDataMenu1" runat="server" StyleSetName="Claymation" Width="100%"
                    EnableScrolling="False">
                    <GroupSettings Orientation="Horizontal" />
                    <Items>
                        <ig:DataMenuItem TemplateId="tmpContact" Text="Root Item">
                        </ig:DataMenuItem>
                        <ig:DataMenuItem Key="Refresh" ImageUrl="./images/webtoolbar/NewRisk.gif" Text="Refresh">
                        </ig:DataMenuItem>
                    </Items>
                    <Templates>
                        <ig:ItemTemplate ID="itmpContact" runat="server" TemplateID="tmpContact">
                            <Template>
                                <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlContact" runat="server" CssClass="dropdownlist" DataTextField="Name"
                                    DataValueField="Code" Width="400px">
                                </asp:DropDownList>
                            </Template>
                        </ig:ItemTemplate>
                    </Templates>
                </ig:WebDataMenu>

I use code from your example above to get the reference to the templated control. I have tried this in Page_Load and Page_InitComplete. The reference is set and I add a handler to the control.

        ddlContact = CType(GetTemplatedControl(WebDataMenu1, "ddlContact"), DropDownList)
        AddHandler ddlContact.SelectedIndexChanged, AddressOf ddlContact_SelectedIndexChanged

But when I click on the dropdownlist it drops down and immediately disappears. The server event 

WebDataMenu1_ItemClick

is fired and it never fires the ddlContact_SelectedIndexChanged handler.

Any idea why this is happening? If I switch off the autopostback on the menu it still happens.

Any examples of how to implement dropdownlists as templates inside a webdatamenu?

Sorry lost some fomatting on last post:

I define the dropdownlist controls in the aspx.

      <ig:WebDataMenu ID="WebDataMenu1" runat="server" StyleSetName="Claymation" Width="100%"
                    EnableScrolling="False">
                    <GroupSettings Orientation="Horizontal" />
                    <Items>
                        <ig:DataMenuItem TemplateId="tmpContact" Text="Root Item">
                        </ig:DataMenuItem>
                        <ig:DataMenuItem Key="Refresh" ImageUrl="./images/webtoolbar/NewRisk.gif" Text="Refresh">
                        </ig:DataMenuItem>
                    </Items>
                    <Templates>
                        <ig:ItemTemplate ID="itmpContact" runat="server" TemplateID="tmpContact">
                            <Template>
                                <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlContact" runat="server" CssClass="dropdownlist" DataTextField="Name"
                                    DataValueField="Code" Width="400px">
                                </asp:DropDownList>
                            </Template>
                        </ig:ItemTemplate>
                    </Templates>
                </ig:WebDataMenu>

I use code from your example above to get the reference to the templated control. I have tried this in Page_Load and Page_InitComplete. The reference is set and I add a handler to the control.

        ddlContact = CType(GetTemplatedControl(WebDataMenu1, "ddlContact"), DropDownList)
        AddHandler ddlContact.SelectedIndexChanged, AddressOf ddlContact_SelectedIndexChanged

But when I click on the dropdownlist it drops down and immediately disappears. The server event
WebDataMenu1_ItemClick is fired and it never fires the ddlContact_SelectedIndexChanged handler.

Any idea why this is happening? If I switch off the autopostback on the menu it still happens.
Any examples of how to implement dropdownlists as templates inside a webdatamenu?

Is this the same issue as IntegraXP, that is the dropdownlist cannot get focus? This is a critical issue for us now as the toolbars are used in many pages and there is no alternative but to use the webdatamenu..