I have a table of information that I want to display in a Gridview or a Datalist; when the boolean column "MadeinUSA" is TRUE, I want to display a little .gif flag image in that row of the displayed Gridview or Datalist, instead of just text or a checked checkbox.

With my shaky ASP.NET knowledge, I'm guessing I should do something with a template, inserting the flag image into the list or repeater's template with the Visible property set to "False", and then in the code-behind do something like "If MadeinUSA=1 Visible=TRUE".

So, I have a vague idea of how to do it, but I'm not sure exactly how to structure the syntax to make this work.

Any help would be appreciated!

Hi,
I dont know, there might be an easy solution, but I have done this before in the following way...

I have used a GridView. In that I have added the column like this -
<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="IsActive">
    <ItemTemplate>
         <asp:Image runat="server" ImageUrl='<%#getIcon(Container.DataItem) %>'/>
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>

In the code behind I have added the following function -
protected string getIcon(object DataItem)
    {
        int status = Int32.Parse(DataBinder.Eval(DataItem, "status").ToString());
        if (status == 0)
            return "images/active.gif";
        else
            return "images/suspend.gif";

    }

You can try out in this way. If anyone has any better solution please post that.

I will try this -- thank you very much!

Hi there,

If it's just a matter of hiding or showing the image, then you could also bind to the Visible property directly:

<asp:Image runat="server" ImageUrl="MadeinUSA.gif" Visible='<%# Bind("MadeinUSA") %>' />

For more complex scenarios (e.g. determining the correct image), angshujit's solution is perfect.

Cheers,

Imar

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Perfect. This never occured to me, and yet is so simple.

I'm saving a copy of angshujit's method as well, for when I inevitably have to choose between multiple icons.

Thank you both very much!