help calling a function from within a datagrid hyperlinkcolumn

[Andrew Pasetti]

I'm having trouble getting a function to return a string from within a
hyperlinkcolumn. Perhaps someone can suggest what I'm doing wrong. I've used
a test string just to test the function. Unfortunately nothing is being
returned.

Thank you in advance,

Andrew

Within the datagrid:

<asp:HyperLinkColumn Text='<% FormatText("test") %>'
....></asp:HyperLinkColumn>

Within the code behind page:

Public Function FormatText(ByVal strText As String)
Return strText
End Function

 

[Philip Q [MVP]]

Don't you have to databind it? So the column would look like -

<asp:HyperLinkColumn Text='<%# FormatText("test" %>' ....

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