Question

My situation is like this:

I have a function that returns a value as SPListItemCollection and I bind this function to a repeater.
My problem is how can I do some conditional formatting before the return value?

SPListItemCollection GetListItems()
{
SPWeb curWeb = SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb;
string siteUrl = SPContext.Current.Web.Url;
SPListItemCollection curItems = GetDep(ListName, department);
// write condition here so that it checks if the item count is higher or 
//lower than a specified number.

return curItems;
}

thank you for your help.

Answer 1

Im not 100% sure what you want to do before the return. If you only want to check if the resultItem.Count is bigger then 100 for example, you can do this:

    SPListItemCollection GetListItems()
    {
        SPWeb curWeb = SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb;
        string siteUrl = SPContext.Current.Web.Url;
        SPListItemCollection curItems = GetDep(ListName, department);

        if (curItems.Count > 100)
        {
            // change the items or do whatever you want. after that, return:
            foreach(SPListItem item in curItems)
            {
                //format/change
            }
            return curItems;
        }
        // return, without any changes
        return curItems;
    }