ItemCommand not firing on first click in Repeater or GridView?

MikeW After hours and hours of fiddling with this, I found the root of your issue. It has nothing particular to do with the repeater or the gridview. It is simply a dynamic-controls-on-a-postback issue.

I figured it out, but I don't understand why. The original code was.

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