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# Thursday, August 05, 2010

When displaying a repeater on an aspx page:

<asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>
<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "FileName")%>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

or shorter:

<asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>
<%#Eval("FileName")%>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

It is important to remember to make FileName a property and not just a public field ie this works

public class ImageThing
{
public string FileName {get; set; }
}

private void DisplayThumbnailImages()
{
ImageThing imageThing1 = new ImageThing();
ImageThing imageThing2 = new ImageThing();
imageThing1.FileName = "asdf.jpg";
imageThing2.FileName = "aaa.jpg";

List<ImageThing> imagesToRender = new List<ImageThing>();
imagesToRender.Add(imageThing1);
imagesToRender.Add(imageThing2);

Repeater1.DataSource = imagesToRender;
Repeater1.DataBind();
}

this doesn’t

public class ImageThing
{
public string FileName;
}

A property encapsulates a field.

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