Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Using data binding with Eval to set TemplateField button Visible property

I needed to conditionally hide a delete button in a GridView. This data binding expression did the trick:


<asp:ImageButton ID="ImageButton1" runat="server" CausesValidation="False"
CommandName="Delete" ImageUrl="~/_Images/cross.png" Text="Delete"
Visible='<%# ((string)Eval("statuscodeLabel") == "Draft") %>' />

I also ran across this little beauty that calls a DAL class to do a check against the database (the data is hopefully cached):



<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkCert" runat="server"
Visible='<%# SomeDAL.UserCanDoSomething(CType(Container.DataItem, System.Data.DataRowView).Item("Code").ToString()) %>'
NavigateUrl='<%# Eval("ID", "~/forms/AgencyForm.aspx?pid={0}&mode=cert") %>'>
<img src="../images/tick.png" alt="Certify Agency Data" /></asp:HyperLink>

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