try something like this? make sure in the prerender event you have soemthing like this.. CheckBox chkdnslive = (CheckBox)detailsView.FindControl("chkDNSLive"); chkdnslive.Checked = true; //default to true

I have seen a lot of people all over the web with this same problem so I will let you know how I fixed my problem with it and maybe it will help someone! Firstly, go into IIS Manager and click on your website or directory.. on the right hand panel there is a connection strings option - dbl click on it and it will tell you what your default local sql server is set to.. somehow mine got all screwed up so that was part of my problem.. hopefully that is ALL of your problem (some of you anyhow).. ;-) For me it was more complex however.. I was also trying to do personalization for anonymous users. Thus, in my web.config there were two sets of connection strings.. one was labelled thus: <appSettings> <add key="ConnectionString" value="server=localhost;database=caleb.mdb;uid=;password=;" /> </appSettings> ..so I thought I was using MS Access.. but there was another Connection String attribute like this.. Somewhere else I found this kind of connection string.. <connectionStrings> <add name="LocalhostCTP6" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=CTP6;User ID=dnn;Password=dnn" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> <add name="DynamicConnection" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=CTP6;User ID=dnn;Password=dnn" /> </connectionStrings> <appSettings> <add key="ConnectionInfo" value="server=(local);database=Northwind;Integrated Security=SSPI" /> </appSettings> (see this article[^] If you arent sure which connection string is actually being used by your program, you can use this code.. [^] ..and to complicate things more, an external file can be involved too as it was in my case!! <appSettings file="testlabsettings.config"/> and as if things werent already complicated enough it is possible to add connection strings on the fly at run time see http://www.kodyaz.com/articles/add-connection-string-to-web-configuration-file.aspx[