supply itemtemplate for datalist at runtime

[Tim Mackey]

hi,
i'm programattically creating a datalist and rendering it to the page via a htmltextwriter.
i want to supply the itemtemplate at runtime but don't know how to do this.
i read the help at ms-help://MS.NETFrameworkSDKv1.1/cpref/html/frlrfSystemWebUIITemplateClassTopic.htm
but i don't understand how that translates from what i'm familiar with in terms of a html template.. e.g:
<table><tr><td><% Container.DataItem %></td></tr></table>

is there some way to just use a string? i'm probably being too simplistic.
thanks for any help
tim


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[Scott Allen]

Hi Tim:

One easy way to do this is to create the templates as user controls
and bind them dynamically.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...de/html/cpconCreatingTemplatedUserControl.asp

There is also a programmatic approach:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...atingwebservercontroltemplatesdynamically.asp

HTH,

 

[Tim Mackey]

hi Scott,
many thanks for the reply.
this is very helpful.
tim