That'll teach me to try in-line when I'm a code-behind man :) Your
approach is definitely working, thanks!
Regards,
David P. Donahue
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Carl Olsen wrote:
I'm not sure I understand the problem, but you should be able to define a
function and use it on the DataItem. Say, for example, that I wanted to
change the color of the text depending on the value of the DataItem (say,
for example, true and false):
In the code behind page, I have this:
protected System.Drawing.Color GetColorText(DateTime
resignationDate)
{
DateTime todayDate = DateTime.Now;
if (resignationDate < todayDate)
{
return System.Drawing.Color.Pink;
}
else
{
return System.Drawing.Color.Teal;
}
}
In my item template, I call the function, like this:
<asp:label runat="server" text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,
"MemberName") %>' font-bold="True" id="District2" width="100%"
forecolor='<%# GetColorText((DateTime)DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,
"ResignationDate")) %>'/>
Does that help?
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David P. Donahue
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 5:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Mono-list] Problem with DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "")
Not sure if this is a Mono thing or a .NET thing in general, but...
Normally, when I want to bind data to a DataList in ASP .NET, I just
bind it to a DataSet and the HTML code contains things like:
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Title") %>
This manages to display, for each record, the text contained in the
field "Title" in the DataSet.
Now, I'm trying to add some more logic to that. As far as I know, I'd
need to lose the # in the opening bracket and I can just write code as
normal. This code should be in C# if that's what I use in my project,
right? My first step before adding any other logic was to simply change
the above to:
<% Response.Write(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Title")); %>
However, I get an error at runtime saying that the name "Container"
can't be found in the class.
Is this by design? Is there another approach I should take? All I'm
trying to do is add a simple conditional so, based on the contents of
one field, it will either display another field or display a default.
Simple enough.
Any ideas?
Regards,
David P. Donahue
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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