I have a datagrid, which is written to programatically, I want to populate one of the fields as URL, howevere the url's are quite long, so i just want to mask them all with the word "link", any ideas how i can do this?
here is my code:
<asp:HyperLinkField DataTextField="location" DataNavigateUrlFields=location HeaderText="Link" />



also, the link will work fine for URL's but then the value is a file directory it replaces the beginnig with the localhost address e.g

this link works fine when i open manually http://domain.company.net//download/word_doc.doc

but when opened as hyperlink through code above it comes out as http://localhost/Website/%20http://d...d/word_doc.doc



any ideas on both?

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Add the "Text" attribute to the link field:

<asp:HyperLinkField DataTextField="location" DataNavigateUrlFields=location HeaderText="Link" Text="Link" />

Look at the URL that isn't working, it has a "%20" in it. This is the space character, so I suspect that you need to trim the value you are binding to the link field. The space is breaking the url. Also, if you are providing a url as an querystring value on another url you should url encode it:

   Server.UrlEncode(<value>)

-Peter
compiledthoughts.com

thank you