I am running VS web dev.2005 express. I have a detailsview where the data sourse is a SQL database. Within the detailsview I have converted all 4 fileds to templetes and on each insert templete I have a dropdown box being sourced from another data source.
What I need to do is populate one of the dropdown boxes based on what is being selected from one of the previous dropdown boxes.
Example:
Select statment for dropdown#1
select [gp_sysid],[gp_name],[montool] from Groups

Dropdown#2 needs to be populated by the above select statement but [montool]value only!!

then on insert write all of the selected values to the database. this is seems to be strainght forward if you are outside the templete however
THE PROBLEM
I can't figure how to referance the dropdown boxes.selected value when they are placed inside of the templete view. I know the ID of the dropdown boxes but when placing that ID in the code behind page there seems to be no referance to it . I am importing

Imports System.Web.UI.ControlValuePropertyAttribute

Imports ASP.MP_by_name_aspx

Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls

all suggestions are welcome

Thanks
Tom