Get Container.DataItem in Repeater on If Statement

[hooddlcs]

I'm trying to use an if statement in a repeater to decide whether or not to display a field.

<% If DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "memtype") = "P" Then %>
HTML TO SHOW A PICTURE
<% End If %>

I get an error saying Container isn't defined. I'm using a PagedDataSouce from a DataSet. Any ideas?

Thanks, Aaron

[dj4uk]

I'm guessing you have this if statement within the repeater itemtemplate.

Best thing to do is call a method passing in arguments like so:

<%# displayImage( (string) DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "memtype") ) %>

and then in the code behind:

string displayImage(string MemType) {
if (MemType == "P") {
//return string of HTML to display image
}
}

Is that what you were after?

DJ

[hooddlcs]

is there a way to do this in vb.net?

I get the error "Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'ToString' can be called with these arguments"

<%# showDist(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "distance"))%>

[hooddlcs]

Nevermind, I got it...thanks a lot