Bind value of property to result of some method in ASP.NET

Question

Hi, there!

I need to bind an ASP.NET control something like so:

  <asp:label ID="lblName" Text=<%# GetName()) %>

and in CodeBehind file I have this method:

   protected string GetName()
   {
      ...
   }

Is this right, or how I can do something like this?

Answer 1

Hey,

Methods in code-behind need to be public I believe; I could be wrong, but I've gotten this to work:

<asp:label ID="lblName" Text='<%= GetName() %>' />

With

public string GetName()
{
      ...
}

HTH

Answer 2

Try:

<asp:Label ID="Status" runat="server"><%# this.Test() %></asp:Label>

The above code assumes that you have a method called Test() with public access that returns a string in its implementation file.