ASP.NET Repeater bind List<string>

asp.net data-binding repeater
josephj1989 picture josephj1989 · Feb 16, 2011 · Viewed 87.3k times · Source

I am binding a List<string> to a Repeater control. Now I want to use the Eval function to display the contents in ItemTemplate like 

<%# Eval("NAME") %>.

But I am not sure what I should use instead of NAME.

Answer

Vadim picture Vadim · Feb 16, 2011

Just use <%# Container.DataItem.ToString() %>

If you are worried about null values you may want to refactor to this (.NET 6+)

<asp:Repeater ID="repeater" runat="server">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <%# Container.DataItem?.ToString() ?? string.Empty%>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

Note if you are using less than .NET 6 you cannot use the null-conditional operator Container.DataItem?.ToString()

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