Re: Business objects with no properties and data binding

This is what I ended up doing.

This is unfortunate that you cannot bind to methods.


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From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Efran Cobisi
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 02:20
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WEB] Business objects with no properties and data binding

Hi,

Afaik this is not possible, because bound values are gathered using the
System.Web.UI.DataBinder:GetDataItem() method, which expects public
properties.
You could, however, write a proxy for your object, which could abstract
the logic required to access data in your object, allowing to retrieve
using public properties.

HTH,

Efran Cobisi
http://www.cobisi.com

Alex Ivanoff wrote:
> Is it possible to data bind a web control (DropDownList) to a list of
> business objects which do not have properties but accessor methods instead:
>
> public class State
> {
>   private String _abbr;
>   private String _name;
>
>   public String GetAbbr()
>   {
>     return this._abbr;
>   }
>
>   public String GetName()
>   {
>     return this._name;
>   }
> }
>
> Thank you,
> Alex
>
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