Question

I have a property in my code that sends back the information in a usercontrol that is a repeater. rptOwners is the repeater I am using. The information inside the repeater has to be parsed manually to xml and sent back through a property in the code. The problem is that I can’t seem to get access to the values of the controls inside the repeater.

When debugging, I am able to see that there are the 2 items I expected in rptOwners.DataSource and that the rptOwners.Items.Count = 2. I can then see in the watch window that the information I want is there but I can’t get access to it.

I have been trying rptOwners.DataSource[0].Name etc but it says that “cannot apply indexing to an expression of type object.

public string xmlString
{
    get
    {
        var _builder = new StringBuilder();

        var rpt = rptOwners.DataSource;
        IList<string> ownersRepeater = new List<string>();

        foreach (var item in rpt )
        {
            _builder.Append("<Owners>");
            _builder.Append("<Owner>");
            _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", name));
            _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", address));
            _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", age));
            _builder.Append("</Owner>");
            _builder.Append("</Owners>");
        }
        return _builder.ToString();
    }

Thanks for the help. Let me know if this was not clear enough.

Here is more of what I mean…

Here is the answer:

foreach (RepeaterItem item in rptOwners.Items)
        {
            var lblOwnerName = (Label)item.FindControl("lblOwnerName");


            _builder.Append("<Owners>");
            _builder.Append("<Owner>");
            _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", lblOwnerName));
            _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", item));
            _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", item));
            _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", item));
            _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", item));
            _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", item));
            _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", item));
            _builder.Append("</Owner>");
            _builder.Append("</Owners>");


        }
        return _builder.ToString();

Answer 1

Try this (i only added a cast):

public string xmlString
{
get
{
    var _builder = new StringBuilder();

    var rpt = (IList<Owner>) rptOwners.DataSource; //ADDED A CAST
    IList<string> ownersRepeater = new List<string>();

    foreach (var item in rpt )
    {
        _builder.Append("<Owners>");
        _builder.Append("<Owner>");
        _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", name));
        _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", address));
        _builder.Append(String.Format("<item>{0}</item>", age));
        _builder.Append("</Owner>");
        _builder.Append("</Owners>");
    }
    return _builder.ToString();
}