> You may consider using 'helper functions'. Your Repeater control's
> ItemTemplate (in Project.aspx) may have something like this:
>
> <li>
> <%# BuildLink ((int)(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "projectTitle")),
> (string)(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "projectTitle"))) %>
> </li>
>
> And BuildLink() method (in the control's code-behind) will dynamically
> create the markup for the link based on the current page's name.
>
> protected string BuildLink(int id, string title)
> {
>     if (<current page is project>)
>     {
>         return "<a href='project.aspx?projectID=" + id.ToString() + "'>" +
> title + "</a>";
>     }
>     else if (<current page is news>)
>     {
>         // Do the same as above
>     }
> }
>
> Hope you got the idea...
>

> You may consider using 'helper functions'. Your Repeater control's
> ItemTemplate (in Project.aspx) may have something like this:
>
> <li>
> <%# BuildLink ((int)(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "projectTitle")),
> (string)(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "projectTitle"))) %>
> </li>
>
> And BuildLink() method (in the control's code-behind) will dynamically
> create the markup for the link based on the current page's name.
>
> protected string BuildLink(int id, string title)
> {
>     if (<current page is project>)
>     {
>         return "<a href='project.aspx?projectID=" + id.ToString() + "'>" +
> title + "</a>";
>     }
>     else if (<current page is news>)
>     {
>         // Do the same as above
>     }
> }
>
> Hope you got the idea...

> You may consider using 'helper functions'. Your Repeater control's
> ItemTemplate (in Project.aspx) may have something like this:
>
> <li>
> <%# BuildLink ((int)(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "projectTitle")),
> (string)(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "projectTitle"))) %>
> </li>
>
> And BuildLink() method (in the control's code-behind) will dynamically
> create the markup for the link based on the current page's name.
>
> protected string BuildLink(int id, string title)
> {
>     if (<current page is project>)
>     {
>         return "<a href='project.aspx?projectID=" + id.ToString() + "'>" +
> title + "</a>";
>     }
>     else if (<current page is news>)
>     {
>         // Do the same as above
>     }
> }
>
> Hope you got the idea...

> JPH, I think I misunderstood the situation here. In order to achieve what
> you are looking for the .ascx should be made as generic as possible:
>
> 1. Make the .ascx expose apporpriate properties to accept ID and Description
> field names (values for these could be ProjectID and ProjectDesc
> respectively)
> 2. Expose a property for setting the data source for the menu control
> 3. Override the DataBind method of the menu control
>
> Here is a sample code for the .ascx control (watch for code-wrapping):
>
> <code>
>
> [ASCX]
> <asp:Repeater ID="menuCtl" runat="server">
>  <ItemTemplate>
>   <ol>
>    <li>
>     <%# BuildLink (Container.DataItem) %>
>    </li>
>   </ol>
>  </ItemTemplate>
> </asp:Repeater>
>
> [CODE BEHIND]
> public partial class MyMenu : System.Web.UI.UserControl
> {
>  private object _ds = null;
>  private string _idProp = null;
>  private string _descProp = null;
>
>  public override void DataBind ()
>  {
>   menuCtl.DataSource = _ds;
>   menuCtl.DataBind ();
>  }
>
>  public object DataSource
>  {
>   get {return _ds;}
>   set {_ds = value;}
>  }
>
>  public string IDPropertyName
>  {
>   get { return _idProp; }
>   set { _idProp = value; }
>  }
>
>  public string DescPropertyName
>  {
>   get { return _descProp; }
>   set { _descProp = value; }
>  }
>
>  protected string BuildLink (object o)
>  {
>   DataRowView drv = (DataRowView)o;
>   if (<current page is project.aspx)
>   {
>    return "<a href='project.aspx?projectID=" + drv[_idProp] + "'>" +
> drv[_descProp]+ "</a>";
>   }
>   else if (<current page is news.aspx)
>   {
>    return "<a href=news.aspx?newsID=" + drv[_idProp] + "'>" +
> drv[_descProp]+ "</a>";
>   }
>  }
>
> }
> </code>
>
> And here is how a typical .aspx page will utilize it:
> <code>
> [ASPX]
> <%@ Register Src="~/MyMenu.ascx" TagName="mnu" TagPrefix="ctl" %>
>
> <ctl:mnu id="ctlmnu" runat="server" DescPropertyName="ProjectName"
> IDPropertyName="ProjectID"></ctl:mnu>
>
> [CODE-BEHIND]
>     ctlmnu.DataSource = <data table with cols ProjectName and ProjectID to
> create the menu>;
>     ctlmnu.DataBind ();
> </code>
>
> The control could be made even more generic though. But for simplicity sake
> I left it as it is now...
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> "JPH" <j.hayc***@livjm.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:1160420963.798134.166100@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Siva M wrote:
> > You may consider using 'helper functions'. Your Repeater control's
> > ItemTemplate (in Project.aspx) may have something like this:
> >
> > <li>
> > <%# BuildLink ((int)(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "projectTitle")),
> > (string)(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "projectTitle"))) %>
> > </li>
> >
> > And BuildLink() method (in the control's code-behind) will dynamically
> > create the markup for the link based on the current page's name.
> >
> > protected string BuildLink(int id, string title)
> > {
> >     if (<current page is project>)
> >     {
> >         return "<a href='project.aspx?projectID=" + id.ToString() + "'>" +
> > title + "</a>";
> >     }
> >     else if (<current page is news>)
> >     {
> >         // Do the same as above
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > Hope you got the idea...
>
> Actually Siva this can't work because the data Items aren't always
> going to be projectTitle or projectID. When you set the repeater up in
> the HTML you need the projectTitle and projectID to be variables so
> they can be set from the code behind page.
>
> I'm begining to think this is not doable
>
> cheers
>
> John