title: Referencing webcontrols in an UpdatePanel in EditItemTemplate of a Gridview
body: <p>I am getting null reference exception when trying to reference a web control which is within an AJAX UpdatePanel, which itself is within and EditItemTemplate of a Gridview. I am doing this in the RowDataBound event handler of the gridview as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>protected void gvIntakes_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
      {
          if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
          {
  
              DataRowView row = (DataRowView)e.Row.DataItem;
              UpdatePanel up = (UpdatePanel)e.Row.FindControl("Status_UpdatePanel"); //**** up is showing null on debug
              Panel pnlSelectStaff = (Panel) up.FindControl("pnlSelectStaff")  ;
              Panel pnlSchedule = (Panel)up.FindControl("pnlSchedule");
  </code></pre>