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Urgent: Using a Repeater getting the rowdata

Hi iam trying to pass the underlying data of an ASP:Repeater item to a custom control which will be used to format the Repeater,as follows:-  How do i do this correctly so i can access the Items data within my control. PS you will notice i have a public property in my ItemControl called ItemData which im hopeing can be passed a DataRow.


<asp:Repeater id="rptrLocations" runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>
<cc3:Item id="Item1" ItemData="?????????????" runat="server"></cc3:Item> // this is my custom control
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
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Thanks for this bit of help. im trying it in a bit, but it looks ok so here is the points
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Sorry i get the following error

Parser Error Message: Cannot create an object of type 'System.Data.DataRow' from its string representation '<# ((DataRowView)Container.DataItem).Row #>' for the 'ItemData' property.
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 <%@ Import Namespace="System.Data" %>

[C#]
<cc3:Item id="Item1" ItemData='<%# ((DataRowView)Container.DataItem).Row %>'  runat="server"></cc3:Item>

[VB.NET]
<cc3:Item id="Item1" ItemData='<%# DirectCast(Container.DataItem,DataRowView).Row %>'  runat="server"></cc3:Item>