Chapter 13:page 439,Queries and Anonymous types

Arya · February 2nd, 2010, 02:11 PM

Hi,

I am working on try it out on page 439. After following all the steps, when i run page AllByGenre.aspx in browser, I only get bulleted list, I don't get name of the Genre. Here is the mark up of the page

Code:

<%@ Page Title="All reviews bygenre" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPages/MasterPage.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="AllByGenre.aspx.cs" Inherits="AllByGenre" %>

<asp:Content ID="Content1" ContentPlaceHolderID="head" Runat="Server">
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="cpMainContent" Runat="Server">
  <asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server">
  <ItemTemplate>
  <h3><asp:Literal ID="Literal1" runat="server" Text='<% Eval("Name") %>'/></h3>
    <asp:BulletedList ID="lstReviews" runat="server" DataSource='<%#Eval("Reviews")%>' DataTextField="Title" DisplayMode="Text">
    </asp:BulletedList> 
  </ItemTemplate>
  </asp:Repeater>
</asp:Content>

and here is the code from AllByGenre.aspx.cs

Code:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

public partial class AllByGenre : BasePage
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
      using (PlanetWroxDataContext myDataContext = new PlanetWroxDataContext())
      {
        var allGenres = from genre in myDataContext.Genres
                        orderby genre.Name
                        select new { genre.Name, genre.Reviews };
        Repeater1.DataSource = allGenres;
        Repeater1.DataBind();
      }
    }
}

Anyone pls help me out, where am i making mistake?

Arya

Imar · February 2nd, 2010, 03:40 PM

Hi there,

You're missing the # symbol in the Eval statement for the Name property in the Literal...

Hope this helps,

Imar

Arya · February 2nd, 2010, 11:22 PM

Thank you very much Imar,
Arya