November 2007 Entries

Container.DataItem. What exactly is this?

Recently I had to bind to an array of strings and I wasn't sure how to show the value of the current item. After a little bit of help from the DevTheo and a little bit of thinking I figured out the solution was very simple. All i had to do was bind it like this: <%# Container.DataItem %> So what is this expression exactly? The <%# %> means this is a DataBinding expression and Container.DataItem is an alias for the current item in the datasource. In other words, if you are binding to a collection of objects Container.DataItem is the current...

posted @ Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:24 PM | Feedback (20)