Comments by Tipton Tyler (Top 10 by date)

Thank you for your quick response. I don't believe the problem is in the binding. I can create a bulleted list that lists song titles using:

DataSource = '<%# Eval("Songs") %>' DataTextField="Title"

and a bulleted list that lists the appropriate song id using:

DataSource = '<%# Eval("Songs") %>' DataValueField="Id"

NB[somehow part of the code for the "SongsAndBands" forms got deleted from the question and looks like this:

<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="cpMainContent" Runat="Server">
<asp:EntityDataSource ID="EntityDataSource1" runat="server">

<asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server" >





I believe my problem is structure; I don't know how to capture the the song id and insert it in a hyperlink within the bulleted list.

Well, using Visual Studio and IIS, I can render the project on LocalHost on my computer. I would like to be able to render it on my Web Host, ATT WebHost, server and access it over the net. This has not been as easy as rendering it on my browser using LocalHost and was asking if anyone has had any similar experience in getting an ASP.NET project to render on a web hosting site.

Thank you all for your suggestions. I apologize for the incomplete XAML code. In an attempt to mineralize, I left a few things in that weren't pertinent and left out a few that were. As suggested I ran the "code behind" in the manner suggested by arussell and everything worked as expected. I then did what I probably should have before submitting the question and began adding the remainder of the code for the full application piece by piece. It only took one try to isolate the problem.
The full application loads the brokers, categories and subcategories from a database. I use a datareader to load the comboboxes. The pertinent code follows:

sql = "SELECT Broker FROM tabBroker ORDER BY Broker";
cboBroker = cboFiller.FillBox(sql, cboBroker);

public ComboBox FillBox(string sql, ComboBox cboBox)
{
string Sql = sql;
string strConnect = "Data Source=(LocalDB)\\MSSQLLocalDB;Initial
Catalog=database;Integrated Security=True";
SqlConnection con = null;
SqlDataReader reader = null;
try
{
con = new SqlConnection(strConnect);
con.Open();

SqlCommand com = new SqlCommand(Sql, con);
reader = com.ExecuteReader();
while (reader.Read())
{ cboBox.Items.Add(reader.GetString(0)); }
}
catch (SqlException Ex)
{ MessageBox.Show("Failure to load " + cboBox + "\n + " + Ex); }
finally
{ if (reader != null) { reader.Close(); } con.Close(); }
return cboBox;
}

The weird WPF behavior occurs when the comboboxes are loaded in this manner. I suspect SAKryukov suggestion is pertinent but I'm not sure how to go about implementing the solution.

Thank all of you for your suggestions, they did help. Yes, I found the connection protocols in the SQL Network Configuration tab of the SQL Server Configuration Manager and enabled "Named Pipes" (it had been disabled). Some how I was able to get the SQL Server Browser running (perhaps setting the Advanced Properties Start Mode to "Automatic" allowed me access. I don't know if anyof this really helped. In the end I found out that the Server Name was simply the name of my computer, "LENOVO_Laptop": not SQLEXPRESS, not SQLEXPRESS, not MSSQLSERVER, not Local, or Localhost or LocalDB but just the name of my computer, Go figure. Again, thanks for your help. I think I'm back in business :-)