Repeater with Object as Value
 

I am trying to iterate through a hashtable that i have populated with objects using the repeater control.
For each iteration i wish to output the values of properties of the objects I am populating the hashtable with.


For example: -

 



Class SomeClass 

{ 

public String myProperty1 

public String myProperty2 



    public SomeClass() 

    { 

        this.myProperty1 = "hello"; 

        this.myProperty2 = "goodbye"; 

    } 

} 





Class TestSome 

{ 

    public Hashtable myHash    = new Hashtable(); 



    public TestSome() 

    { 

        myHash.Add("key1", new SomeClass()); 

    } 



}

In the webform codebehind: -

 

TestSome myTest = new TestSome(); 

this.myRepeater.DataSource = myTest.myHash; 

this.myRepeater.DataBind();

ASP html

 

<asp:repeater id=myRepeater runat="server"> 

<ItemTemplate> 

    <DIV style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN-LEFT: 10px"> 

    <asp:Label id="Label2" runat="server" Width="160px"> 





        <!-- how do i specify that i wish to use the class's properties here? --> 

        <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "myProperty1") %> 

         



        <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "myProperty2") %> 



    </asp:Label> 

    </DIV> 

    </ItemTemplate> 

</asp:repeater>

~ Lacuna

Re: Repeater with Object as Value
 

I found the problem :)

I should be using:

 

<%# ((SomeClass)Container.DataItem).myProperty1 %>

instead of the 'Databinder.Eval' statement. I can then repeat this statement changing the propery value to show each of the properties I want to show.

It works great now.

~ Lacuna