I'm using the new Routing feature in ASP.NET 4 (Web forms, not MVC). Now I have an asp:ListView which is bound to a datasource. One of the properties is a ClientID
which I want to use to link from the ListView items to another page. In global.asax
I have defined a route:
System.Web.Routing.RouteTable.Routes.MapPageRoute("ClientRoute",
"MyClientPage/{ClientID}", "~/Client.aspx");
so that for instance http://server/MyClientPage/2
is a valid URL if ClientID=2 exists.
In the ListView items I have an asp:HyperLink so that I can create the link:
<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLinkClient" runat="server"
NavigateUrl='<%# "~/MyClientPage/"+Eval("ClientID") %>' >
Go to Client details
</asp:HyperLink>
Although this works I would prefer to use the RouteName instead of the hardcoded route by using a RouteUrl expression. For instance with a constant ClientID=2 I could write:
<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLinkClient" runat="server"
NavigateUrl="<%$ RouteUrl:ClientID=2,RouteName=ClientRoute %>" >
Go to Client details
</asp:HyperLink>
Now I am wondering if I can combine the route expression syntax and the databinding syntax. Basically I like to replace the constant 2
above by <%# Eval("ClientID") %>
. But doing this in a naive way...
<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLinkClient" runat="server"
NavigateUrl='<%$ RouteUrl:ClientID=<%# Eval("ClientID") %>,RouteName=ClientRoute %>' >
Go to Client details
</asp:HyperLink>
... does not work: <%# Eval("ClientID") %>
is not evaluated but considered as a string. Playing around with several flavors of quotation marks also didn't help so far (Parser errors in most cases).
Question: Is it possible at all what I am trying to achieve here? And if yes, what's the correct way?
Thank you in advance!