My problem:
I have a field in a database table that contains URL info.
The values can be:
1. A Url
2. Null
If the value is null I still need to display the record but not the url
link.
How do I accomplish this with the ASP.NET repeater control?
In regular ASP I would just do something like this:
<% IF CONDITION THEN%>
HTML HTML HMTL
<%ELSE%>
ALTERNATE HTML
<%END IF%>
Thanks,
Fernando
4  8026 
Hi Fernando,
As for the problem you mentioned, it is a general databinding scenario in
asp.net. First , we should see that the asp.net has completely different
programming model with the classic asp. In asp, we render all the html code
manually via script code. In asp.net, we using Databinding mechanism when
we need to display list of datas retrieved from db and contained in a
certain recordcontainer (dataset or datareader). And there're some buildin
controls for databinding display ,(datagrid/datalist/repeater). What we
need to do is specifying the databinding expression in the control's
template and assign the datasource at runtime. The asp.net databinding
expression is something like:
<%# data binding expression %>
#Data Binding Expression Syntax http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...us/cpgenref/ht
ml/cpcondatabindin gexpressionsynt ax.asp
and we can define our own helper functions in page class and call them in
the <%# %> binding block. So as for the problem you mentioned , we can
define a helper function in the code behind such as string
checkValue(obje ct)
{
if(object is dbnull)
return otherthing
else
return url
}
and call it in repeater's template as below:
<ItemTemplate >
..
<%# checkValue(Data Binder.Eval(..) ) %>
..
</ItemTemplate>
Hope helps. If you have anything else unclear, please feel free to post
here.
Regards,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support
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Hi Fernando,
Thanks for your followup. I'm glad that my suggestions are of assitance.
As for the new problem you mentioned, that is because when you call a
class(no the codebehind page class)'s method, the page can't find it by
default. We can directly use the codebehind class's methods( protected or
public ones) because the actual asp.net page's class is a derived class of
the codebehind class. We don't need to import namespace for it. If we want
to call other class's member function, we need explicitly import the
class's name space. For example:
<%@Page ....%>
<%@ Import Namespace="MyWe bApp.DataBindin g" %>
............... .
<body>
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<table width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
<asp:TextBox id="txtOne" runat="server" Text='<%# DataHelper.GetT ext()
%>'>
</asp:TextBox>
.......
The DataHelper Class is under the MyWebApp.DataBi nding namespace, so I
explicity import its namespace. Using the <%@Import ..%> directive http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ort.asp?frame=
true
Also, we can call the class with its full namespace so that we don't need
to import it , such as
<asp:TextBox id="txtOne" runat="server"
Text='<%# MyWebApp.databi nding.DataHelpe r.GetText() %>'>
</asp:TextBox>
If you have anything else unclear, please feel free to post here. Thanks.
Regards,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support
Get Secure! www.microsoft.com/security
(This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no
rights.)
Once again, thank you!!!
And of course, I have another one for you. (and I promise as soon as I'm
proficient enough in .NET I'll help others too.)
This one is regarding name spaces.
On my development machine, I created my ASP.NET project under the "AAANEW"
directory.
Every file created inside the project uses the "AAANEW" namespace.
My production server directory is "AAA" (without the new) and I want the
namespace references everywhere in my project to be only "AAA".
How do I accomplish this? Is there any tool in VS that does that? Can I just
do a global search and replace?
Thanks,
Fernando
"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <v-******@online.m icrosoft.com> wrote in message
news:Aw******** ******@cpmsftng xa06.phx.gbl... Hi Fernando,
Thanks for your followup. I'm glad that my suggestions are of assitance.
As for the new problem you mentioned, that is because when you call a
class(no the codebehind page class)'s method, the page can't find it by
default. We can directly use the codebehind class's methods( protected or
public ones) because the actual asp.net page's class is a derived class of
the codebehind class. We don't need to import namespace for it. If we want
to call other class's member function, we need explicitly import the
class's name space. For example:
<%@Page ....%>
<%@ Import Namespace="MyWe bApp.DataBindin g" %>
...............
<body>
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<table width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td>
<asp:TextBox id="txtOne" runat="server" Text='<%# DataHelper.GetT ext()
%>'>
</asp:TextBox>
......
The DataHelper Class is under the MyWebApp.DataBi nding namespace, so I
explicity import its namespace. Using the <%@Import ..%> directive
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ort.asp?frame=
true
Also, we can call the class with its full namespace so that we don't need
to import it , such as
<asp:TextBox id="txtOne" runat="server"
Text='<%# MyWebApp.databi nding.DataHelpe r.GetText() %>'>
</asp:TextBox>
If you have anything else unclear, please feel free to post here. Thanks.
Regards,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support
Get Secure! www.microsoft.com/security
(This posting is provided "AS IS", with no warranties, and confers no
rights.)
Hi Fernando,
Thanks for your followup. As for the changing namespace question you
mentioned, it's different depending on the project's type you use. C# or
VB.NET:
1.For C# project, vs.net specify the namespace in each .cs file , you can
find
namespace XXXX
{
}
arround the classes in each cs file. Thus, if we want to change the
namespace for a whole project, we need to do manual replace in all the cs
files
2. In VS.NET projects, all the namespace are centrally set in the project
setting(rather than explicitly in each .vb source file). You can open the
project's properties window and find the "Root namespace" setting, we can
change this and rebuild the whole project.
Hope helps. Thanks.
Regards,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support
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