Hi,got a problem here:
What i want to do is to control the visibility of a linkbutton in my datalist based on a given value from a field(Manager) in my database.The field type is varchar(2).I'm writing in C#
I tried compiling the codes,but it says my server tag is not well formed and other times it gives me like "cannot convert string to bool" etc.Please advice.

Here are part of relavent codes.

<asp:DataList ID="DataList1" runat="server" DataSourceID="SqlDataSource1"
onitemdatabound="DataList1_ItemDataBound" CellPadding="4"

ForeColor="#333333" Width="370px" HorizontalAlign="Right">

<HeaderStyle BackColor="#507CD1" Font-Bold="True" ForeColor="White" />

<ItemTemplate>

<asp:LinkButton id="SelectButton" Text="View Groups" CommandName='<%# Eval("LongID") %>' OnCommand=LinkButton1_Command runat="server" Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Size="11pt" Visible="<%# ShowOrHideRow(Eval("Manager").ToString) %>"/>

\code behind

protected string ShowOrHideRow(string theText)
{

    if( theText = "Y")
               return ("true");
             else
               return("false");

}

Well, it is not well-formed :) See that Visible attribute there. Your attribute is enclosed with " markers so you can't use " character inside the attribute. This is a restriction of XML: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_attributes.asp

So what you can do is to write it like this: Visible='<%# ShowOrHideRow(Eval("Manager").ToString) %>'

Or like I'd do (if Manager is of string type): Visible='<%# (string)Eval("Manager") == "Y" %>'