Bind value of property to result of some method in ASP.NET

Question

I need to bind an ASP.NET control something like so:

  <asp:label ID="lblName" Text=<%# GetName()) %>

and in CodeBehind file I have this method:

   protected string GetName()
   {
      ...
   }

Is this right, or how I can do something like this?

Brian Mains · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-27 13:01:33Z

1

Methods in code-behind need to be public I believe; I could be wrong, but I've gotten this to work:

<asp:label ID="lblName" Text='<%= GetName() %>' />

With

public string GetName()
{
      ...
}

HTH

answered Oct 27, 2010 at 13:01

Brian Mains

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Jude Cooray Over a year ago

in GetName() could you just return "Something" ?

Brian Mains Over a year ago

@Ranhiru, you could return whatever you wanted from this method. You can return objects too, and then do something like: <%= GetName().PropertyOfObject %>.

Kamran Khan · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-27 13:02:35Z

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Try:

<asp:Label ID="Status" runat="server"><%# this.Test() %></asp:Label>

The above code assumes that you have a method called Test() with public access that returns a string in its implementation file.

answered Oct 27, 2010 at 13:02

Kamran Khan

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Roman Over a year ago

Thanks! I can write in this way only for default property. But how about another?

Kamran Khan Over a year ago

What do you mean by how about another?? You can access public and protected property from your markup, but not private.

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