I am having some problems in setting a protected variable from databinder.eval functionality. 

i am basically binding my repeator control from a datatable and at a point i need to asign my protected varaible "xyz" a value from
DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"Name")

when i write a syntax in my aspx page "client side" 
<% TradeSystemIDabcdef = DataBinder.EvalContainer.DataItem,"Trdsystemid").tostring()%> 

it gives me an error " Name 'Container' is not declared" 

if a write 
<%# TradeSystemIDabcdef = DataBinder.EvalContainer.DataItem,"Trdsystemid").tostring()%> 

then it prints false on the ui page. 

is there any way where we acn assign a value to a variable using the above logic. 

. My second question is what if i want to call a function from my aspx page to a function in codebehind . 

i have 

 protected function GetUpperName(Name as string) 
  return ucase(name) 
 end function 

i am calling this function from UI i.e aspx 

i am doing 
<%GetUpperName(DataBinder.EvalContainer.DataItem,"Trdsystemid").tostring()%> 



it gives me an error " Name 'Container' is not declared" 

If someone could help that would be great. 

Thanks 

Rahul 



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