Binding list of objects to ListView with a UserControl inside, problem

I have a ListView containing a UserControl with a public property MyPublicProperty of type MyType.

public MyType MyPublicProperty{ get; set; }

I bind to ListView a list of items of MyType

listView.DataSource = (List<MyType>) items;
listView.DataBind();

In aspx my ListView is defined like this

<asp:ListView ID="listView" runat="server">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <uc1:MyControl ID="myControl" runat="server" MyPublicProperty="<%#(MyType)Container.DataItem %>" />
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:ListView>

Now what happens is that in MyControl MyPublicProperty is not set at the event onDataBinding, and neither after that event.

Do you happen to know why, and a solution for this ?? EDIT: Looking more into the problems I observed that

listView.Items[0].DataItem 

is null after I call listView.DataBind(), but the list datasource has 开发者_运维知识库more then 1 items.

If you want to access the data after it has been bound, you should use the ItemDataBound event which will get called for each item of data:

listView.ItemDataBound += new EventHandler<ListViewItemEventArgs>(listView_ItemDataBound);

Then:

private void listView_ItemDataBound(object sender, ListViewItemEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Item.ItemType == ListViewItemType.DataItem)
    {
        MyType data = (MyType)((ListViewDataItem)e.Item).DataItem;

        // Use your data...
    }
}

What is it you're trying to achieve? The way you have your code now, the data will be set in the UserControl just fine without any further work from you.