Nested user controls assigning value to childs property.

[zb]

Scenario:

I have a datalist control bound to a datasource. By itself, this works
just fine. Now, inside the ItemTemplate I have a custom user control (I
wrote this user control) and it has an itemId property exposed so I can
assign this Id based on which it process other info.
How implemented: <ucrocessItem id="ucProcess" itemId="32e43432"
runat=server />

Inside the parent repeater control this is what I am doing:
<ucrocessItem id="ucProcess" itemId="<%#
DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "itemId") %>" runat=server />

And, this throws an error that tag is not well formed. What I want to
do is assign my user control's itemid value from the datasource of the
parent datalist. How do I do this?

I rather avoid this solution but I am open to using the ItemDataBound
event handler of the datalist and do the processing here. I tried this
and I could not figure out how to get the container data item. So, if
you have a code that can explain this to me will be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Eliyahu Goldin]

Just replace double quotes with single ones:

itemId='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "itemId") %>'

--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer & Consultant
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin
http://usableasp.net

 

[zb]

Thanks Eliyahu. I feel so stupid, it did the trick.

Just replace double quotes with single ones:

itemId='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "itemId") %>'

--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer & Consultant
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin
http://usableasp.net

Scenario:

I have a datalist control bound to a datasource. By itself, this works
just fine. Now, inside the ItemTemplate I have a custom user control (I
wrote this user control) and it has an itemId property exposed so I can
assign this Id based on which it process other info.
How implemented: <ucrocessItem id="ucProcess" itemId="32e43432"
runat=server />

Inside the parent repeater control this is what I am doing:
<ucrocessItem id="ucProcess" itemId="<%#
DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "itemId") %>" runat=server />

And, this throws an error that tag is not well formed. What I want to
do is assign my user control's itemid value from the datasource of the
parent datalist. How do I do this?

I rather avoid this solution but I am open to using the ItemDataBound
event handler of the datalist and do the processing here. I tried this
and I could not figure out how to get the container data item. So, if
you have a code that can explain this to me will be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance.