Late databinding in Templates

[ashearas]

I am building a Composite Control which offers the user a few ITemplate-based properties. I am exploring how to support Data Binding inside the templates.<BR>Suppose the user fills in the template named "<HeaderTemplate>" like this:<BR><HeaderTemplate><BR> This is today's date:&nbsp;<%# DateTime.Today.ToShortDateString() %><BR></HeaderTemplate><BR><BR>This doesn't work even when the user of my control calls DataBind().<BR><BR>I tried calling DataBind on the Placeholder control that ITemplate.InstantiateIn fills for me, thinking that these controls get created after the main control's databind has done its work. Here is sample code:<BR><BR>Control vControl = new MyTemplateControl();<BR>HeaderTemplate.InstantiateIn(vControl);<BR>vControl.DataBind();<BR>Controls.Add(vControl);<BR><BR>MyTemplateControl is based on PlaceHolder, INamingContainer.<BR><BR>Does data binding support placement within a template? <BR>If so, how does one get this to work?<BR><BR>--- Peter<BR>