Question

Right, please don’t point me there:
Disable a HyperLink from code behind

My problem is as follows.
I have a hyperlink on my aspx page:

<asp:HyperLink Visible='<%= _myUser.hasPermission("Intranet Management")%>' Text="Intranet Management" runat="server" NavigateUrl="/Apps/Admin/Default.aspx" />

_myUser.hasPermission("Intranet Management") returns boolean with value of TRUE or FALSE depends if a current user has that permission or not. _myUser is declared in aspx.cs file as protected member so I am able to access it from aspx file.

On my page I am getting following error:

Parser Error Message: Cannot create an object of type ‘System.Boolean’
from its string representation ‘<%= _myUser.hasPermission(“Intranet
Management”) %>’ for the ‘Visible’ property.

Is there any other way of doing that in aspx file? Please don’t ask me to do it in the code behind, I have my reasons to do it here…

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

The problem you’re facing is that asp:Hyperlink is a server control, and these wont evaluate code inside <%= %> for their properties. They will databind though IIRC, so you could try

<asp:HyperLink Visible='<%# _myUser.hasPermission("Intranet Management")%>'...

And make sure to call Page.DataBind().