Passing entire Container.DataItem row to code behind

.net-3.5, c#, datarowview, exception, itemtemplate

Solution

Eventually found a couple of examples which led me to realise I should be casting to DbDataRecord.

I'm still passing <%# formattedAddress(Container.DataItem) %> but my function is now as follows:

    protected string FormattedAddress(object dataItem)
    {
        DbDataRecord data = (DbDataRecord)dataItem;

        string Postcode = data.GetValue(
                          data.GetOrdinal("propertyPostcode")).ToString();
        ...    
        return NicelyFormattedAddress;
    }

Is this the best way to handle the data?

Problem

This question relates to ASP.Net 3.5 and C# I'm building an RSS Feed from a database containing a lot of columns. I need to format the data in a particular node and doing it inline is going to be very messy. I'm aware I can pass all the parameters individually to a subroutine ``` <%# formatAddress(Container.DataItem["propertyName"], Container.DataItem["propertyNumber"], ... ) %> ``` As there's going to be up to 20 of these columns, I'd rather pass the entire row. ``` <%# formatAddress(Container.DataItem) %> ``` This would be ideal then I can pick out the columns I want in code behind: ``` protected string FormattedAddress(object row) { DataRowView data = (DataRowView)row; StringBuilder Address = new StringBuilder(); string Postcode = data["propertyPostcode"]; ... return Address.ToString(); } ``` I'm getting the error Unable to cast object of type 'System.Data.Common.DataRecordInternal' to type 'System.Data.DataRowView'. Previously, I was using protected string FormattedAddress(DataRowView row) but that didn't work either. Any clues?

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