asp:repeater and hashtable

[Joe Fawcett]

I'm having a problem binding an asp:repeater control to a Hashtable. Originally
my code was:

<asp:Repeater id="rptFamily" runat="server" DataSource="<%# family %>">
<ItemTemplate>
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Key") %> =
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Value") %>
</ItemTemplate>
</AlternatingItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

which was bound to a Hashtable ans all works fine. I then started reading that
Databind.Eval was an overkill, I could just use:

<asp:Repeater id="rptFamily" runat="server" DataSource="<%# family %>">
<ItemTemplate>
<%# Container.DataItem.Key %> =
<%# Container.DataItem.Value %>
</ItemTemplate>
</AlternatingItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
but although I can build the site when accessing the page I get an error that :

'object' does not contain a definition for 'Key'

pointing to the first changed line. I've found lots of examples on the Web
showing this second version, are they all perhaps from a beta version or is it
something else?

Thanks

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Joe