Question

I could not find an answer for my question but I think you can help me 🙂

I have a repeater in an ASP.NET website that I want to only show the 3 newest entries. I know it’s possible but I can’t get it to work.. 🙁

My repeater looks like this

    <asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server" DataSourceID="Sql_letter">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <p><%# Eval("Wishlist_Letter_FirstName") %> fra <%# Eval("Wishlist_Letter_City") %></p>

        <p>Har skrevet til Julemanden</p>

        <asp:TextBox ID="r" runat="server" Text='<%# Eval("Wishlist_Letter_Message")%>' TextMode="MultiLine" CssClass="txt_message" BackColor="Transparent" BorderWidth="0" BorderStyle="None" ReadOnly="True"></asp:TextBox>

        <br /> <br />
    </ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

And my SqlDataSource:

<asp:SqlDataSource ID="Sql_letter" runat="server" 
     ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:sqlconnection %>" 
     SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [Wishlist_Letter]">
</asp:SqlDataSource>

Answer 1

The SelectCommand should be something like

SELECT TOP 3 * FROM [Wishlist_Letter] ORDER BY [Timestamp] DESC

but you need to have a Timestamp field or something equal on your table. There is no natural ordering on ms sql which guarantees to return the latest three entries.

In your case it should be

SELECT TOP 3 * FROM [Wishlist_Letter] ORDER BY [ID] DESC