binding a Generic.List to a repeater

[DotNetNewbie]

Hi,

It is not possible to bind a Generic.List collection to a repeater I
guess huh?

I am getting this error:

An invalid data source is being used for rpCategories. A valid data
source must implement either IListSource or IEnumerable.


Is this correct or could I be doing something else wrong?

 

[Mark Dykun]

List<T> or List(of T) has a ToArray method. You could bind to the output of
that method call to your repeater.

Mark Dykun

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

This seems a little strange to me, as IList<T> extends IEnumerable<T>,
which extends IEnumerable, so the error message must be wrong (or you are
not passing what you think is an IList<T> implementation).

 

[DotNetNewbie]

This seems a little strange to me, as IList<T> extends IEnumerable<T>,
which extends IEnumerable, so the error message must be wrong (or you are
not passing what you think is an IList<T> implementation).

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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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Hi,

It is not possible to bind a Generic.List collection to a repeater I
guess huh?

I am getting this error:

An invalid data source is being used for rpCategories. A valid data
source must implement either IListSource or IEnumerable.

Is this correct or could I be doing something else wrong?

Yeah something else has to be wrong.

I changed the collection to an ArrayList and I still get the same
error.

 

[DotNetNewbie]

Yeah something else has to be wrong.

I changed the collection to an ArrayList and I still get the same
error.

Ok this is what happend:

I named my List<T> collection rgSomething.

And my repeater was rpSomething.

And I was binding like so:

rpSomething.DataSource = rpSomething;

==> I was binding a repeater to a repeater!!

 

[Mark Dykun]

Ah, there's the rub

Mark

Ok this is what happend:

I named my List<T> collection rgSomething.

And my repeater was rpSomething.

And I was binding like so:

rpSomething.DataSource = rpSomething;

==> I was binding a repeater to a repeater!!