Question

I’m trying to create a table with Listview and one of the fields I’m using is supposed to show a hyperlink to a more detailed view of the data shown, how I want to do that is by using FindControl on the ID of that item and then changing the value into a hyperlink of the detailed view page with a querystring attached, the problem is that I have no idea how to re-insert that data back into the listview field, which looks something like this:

                    <ItemTemplate>
                    <td>
                    <asp:Label ID="ViewLinkLabel" runat="server" 
                        Text='[insert Link Here]' />
                    </td>
                    </ItemTemplate>

Please bear in mind that I’m still an amateur in ASP.net, and if any of this seems too convoluted when there’s a much easier to do this that I don’t know about.

Thank you

Answer 1

I dont have enough reputation to leave comments or edit posts but the code sample in Richard Harrison’s post has some problems:

  protected void ContactsListView_ItemDataBound(object sender, ListViewItemEventArgs e)                  
  {
        try
        {
            HyperLink ViewLinkLabel = (HyperLink)e.Item.FindControl("ViewLinkLabel");
            ViewLinkLabel.NavigateUrl = "http://www.example.com/";
        }
        catch
        {

        }
    }

Ideally you should also check if ViewLinkLabel is null before you use it.

Also this is presuming that the ViewLinkLabel control is a HyperLink but in the question this is actually a Label control.