When you populate the ddl, in your usercontrol - are you doing it in the
page_Load event?
And if so - is it inside an Postback block?
And, is there a property you are using to get the DDL's selected item?

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>I have created a user control that is a drop down list that pulls from
> my database. I then drop that control into a detailsview control on
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> but is created on the screen. I would like to use the usercontrol
> because I will be using these values in multiple places.