Update: See http://weblogs.asp.net/james_crowley/archive/2005/09/06/424539.aspx
Just found out that ASP.NET 2.0 doesn’t support dynamically loading “bindable” templates from a file; you’re restricted to writing them inline. In other words, if you’re using a FormView or DetailView control, and plan to use the new two-way data binding features, any use of LoadTemplate is out of the window. Plus the BindableTemplateBuilder (for creating a two-way data bound template on the fly) is currently an internal class. Which seems a big shame… (or maybe it’s just me??)
Does anyone know of any potential ways around this?
(Since finding this out, I’ve put in a request to at least make BindableTemplateBuilder a public class here).
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I tried the workaround but it comes up with this error:
“Databinding methods such as Eval(), XPath(), and Bind() can only be used in the context of a databound control.”
Which makes sense.. and adding a DataSourceID attribute to the FormView control doesn”t fix this. Any thoughts?
The answer is here:
http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/4721/