accessing strongly typed properties of a Datatable when binding through the ObjectDataSourc e and Container.DataI tem

[John Davis]

Hi all, hope you are well.(not sure if this posted the first time)

I would like to know if I can access the strongly typed properties of my
datatable when binding through the ObjectDataSourc e object.

I am currently creating some hyperlinks in a repeater bound to an
objectdatasourc e with the following code:

<asp:HyperLin k runat="server" ID="HyperLink1 " NavigateUrl='<% #
string.Format(" ~/Products.aspx?p age=0&categoryI d={0}",
((System.Data.D ataRowView)(Con tainer.DataItem ))["CategoryId "] ) %>'
Text='<%#
((System.Data.D ataRowView)(Con tainer.DataItem ))["Name"] %>' />

or in particular:

((System.Data.D ataRowView)(Con tainer.DataItem ))["CategoryId "]

This is as my ObjectDataSourc e is bound to a CategoriesBLL object that
returns a TypedDS.Categor iesDataTable and as far as I know the
ObjectDateSourc e does an implicit cast to a DataView making every
Container.DataI tem a DataRowView.

But although the above code works I though that one of the points of
strongly typed objects was to do compile time checking on column/property
access and therefore thought that I thought I should be able to do something
like:

((TypedDS.Categ oryRow)(Contain er.DataItem)).C ategoryId

But this complains at runtime with: "Unable to cast object of type
'System.Data.Da taRowView' to type 'CategoryRow'"

and

((TypedDS.Categ oryRow)((System .Data.DataRowVi ew)Container.Da taItem)).Catgeo ryId

complains at compile time with: "Cannot convert type
'System.Data.Da taRowView' to 'TypedDS.Catego ryRow'"

am I missing something or is this not possible?

Cheers

John