http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660@Jeff, Yes, but then I need to manage the state transfer in the code behind. It also means that I need to create user controls for non reusable stuff. http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment6http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment6Thu, 07 Jun 2007 04:41:58 GMTAyende, Put the complex html for each branch in a usercontrol. http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment5http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment5Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:49:30 GMTjoe, put ~ 50 lines of complex HTML on each branch, and you will get a mess. http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment4http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment4Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:24:07 GMTA lot of people forget that you can still write old school asp style in ASP.NET. What I choose most of the time over using controls is something more like this: <% foreach (Policy policy in Policies) { %> <% if (policy.Expired ) { %> Policy expired <% } else { %> Policy valid until <%= policy.ExpiryDate %> <% } %> <% } %> oh, and if you insist on using databinding can't you just write this: <%# ((Policy)Container.DataItem).Expired ? "Policy expired" : "Policy valid until " + ((Policy)Container.DataItem).ExpiryDate.ToString() %> http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment3http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment3Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:08:05 GMT@Aaron, Interesting, this is the first I see this approach. Now I won't have to implement the SwitchRenderer :-) http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment2http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment2Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:30:29 GMTI'm sure you know this.. but MultiView will do just this out of the box (albeit a bit uglier and less expressive) _I think_... it's been a while since I've used it, but try something like this: <asp:MultiView runat="server" ActiveViewIndex="<%# Condition ? 0 : 1%>"> <asp:View runat="server"> True case </asp:View> <asp:View runat="server"> False case </asp:View> </asp:MultiView> We also used asp:Views w/ visible="<%# Condition %>" for things that didn't need an else. http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment1http://ayende.com/2510/rails-conditionalrender-still-trying-to-get-webforms-to-work-right#comment1Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:24:41 GMT