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Is There A Conditional Syntax for Silverlight UI Databinding?

7/17/2008 10:42:00 PM

I'm working on a Silverlight 2 project currently and am running into sort of a wall when it comes to databinding.  Without going into too much detail let's take into the consideration that I have the following objects.

List<Foo> list;
Repeater repeaterFoo;

My repeaterFoo's DataSource property is the list above.  Let's say depending on a certain property of Foo that I want to display a 1 or a 2 in my UI.  That's a pretty basic requirement right?

Here's how I would do this in ASP.NET:

<asp:Repeater ID="repeaterFoo" runat="server">
   <ItemTemplate>
      <%# string.IsNullOrEmpty(Eval("Name").ToString()) ? "1" : "2" %>
   </ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater> 

Now, for the sake of argument (and proof of concept); let's pretend that this example is 100% useful.  How would I accomplish this in Silverlight 2 with it's funky { Binding PropertyName } syntax?

I'm not expecting any simple answer after seeing the dog-and-pony show that is formatting a date / currency in a Grid.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love Silverlight so far, it's just kind of frustrating trying to get used to the little things that were oh-so-easy in ASP.NET!

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE
I figured this out. New entry to come soon.

Hint: It relates to the dog-and-pony show I alluded to earlier :(

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