Question

I have a list of strings where by each string is a url to a pdf document. All I want to do is cycle through this list and display each url as a hyperlink on my page. I’ve seen this done before in MVC where the collection is made avaliable to the view and you can just do a foreach etc etc but I don’t know how to do it on a normal asp.net page…

Any help appreciated, cheers!

Answer 1

You could create the links using an ASP repeater on the page and bind your List to it.

Page:

<asp:Repeater id="repLinks" runat="server">
   <ItemTemplate>
      <asp:HyperLink runat="server" NavigateUrl='<%# Container.DataItem.ToString() %>' Text="LinkText" />
   </ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

Code-behind:

List<string> lLinks = new List<string>();

//Define your list contents here

repLinks.DataSource = lLinks;
repLinks.DataBind();

Something like that should do the trick.