Thinking in the right way?

[Simon Harris]

Hi All,

I'm new to ASP.Net.

As I understand it, the code and presentation should as much as possible
remain seperate. Code is in the 'codebehind' - Be it a script block at the
top of the page or seperate file. I have a situation where I need to list
the number of related records.

So far, I have a datalist, which displays records along with an indicator of
related records for that record, example... "France (4)" (Four related
records)

What I would like to do is display a messages depending on how many related
records are found
e.g. 'Record' where there is 1 record, and 'Records' where there are 1 or
more records, and 'No Records' where there are zero.

This would probably be quite straight forward in a script block at the point
of display, but I would like to do this the 'proper' way to keep my
presentation and logic seperate.

So...Can anyone advise how I would go about setting a label for each item in
my datalist? Is this done at the point of binding the data? Am I
understanding this correctly?

Heres what I currently have...

<ItemTemplate>
<a href="/show_resorts.aspx?countryid=<%# Container.DataItem("countryid")
%>">
<img src="/assets/images/flags/<%# Container.DataItem("countryid") %>.jpg"
title="View records for <%# Container.DataItem("country") %>"
class="SPDImage" /></br>
<%# Container.DataItem("country") %><br>
<span class="smallprint">(<%# Container.DataItem("Resorts") %>
Resorts)</span>
</a>
</ItemTemplate>

The above is a chunk from my datalist, which is bound to an MS Access
OleDbCommand.

Thanks!

Simon.

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[Evertjan.]

Simon Harris wrote on 31 mei 2004 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

I'm new to ASP.Net.

In this NG we would al be new to that.

This is a classical ASP NG.

Plese see one of the [hearsay] dot.net groups.

 

[TomB]

http://www.aspfaq.com/etiquette.asp?id=5002

You should be able to call a code behind function.......

Function string ReturnPlural(int aNumber)
if aNumber=0 then
return "NoRecords"
elseif aNumber=1 then
return "1 Record"
else
return aNumber.ToString() & " Records"
end if
End Function

on your page you'd use...
<%=ReturnPlural(# Container.DataItem("Resorts") )#%>

*Note: I could be (and likely am) wrong, so try a dot net group..

Tom B

 

[Simon Harris]

Hi,

Sorry Guys n Gals - Wrong group, my wrong!

TomB - Good plan, I'll give it a crack anyways, whilst I wait for a reply
from the DotNet guys.

Simon.

 

[TomB]

I think the function should have been

Function ReturnPlural(aNumber as int) as String