> Hi,
>
> I have a collection of objects, this objects contain url information, a
> link to a picture and a descriptive text).
> What I want to do is:
> Displaying this data in a list of 'blocks' where each block is build of
> the picture and the descriptive text surounded by  a link.
>
> I thought that this could be done with a repaeter hosting my user
> control?
>
> Am I right with this approach?
>
> Kind regards, Yvonne

> Yvonne,
>
> A repeater would work.  You can also use a DataList control which is
> meant to show rows and columns in a table.  A repeater is much more
> free form and each row is a template.
>
> To do it with a User Control, you will need to handle a few more
> details.  What you could do is handle the events for the row being
> bound to the row.
>
> ItemDatabound may be the event for Repeater.  And on your User Control
> in the code-behind class, add public Properties which you can set in
> that event handler.  I use Properties to wrap the controls within the
> User Control.  Like my TextBox called TextBox1 may have a propert
> called FirstName, and the Get and Set sections would Get and Set the
> Text property on the TextBox1 control.  Doing it this way exposes it
> publicly to the parent control.
>
> Then set each of them as the datasource is bound to the control.
>
> Walk over it using the debugger to see how it is actually running.
>
> Brennan Stehling
> http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/
>
> Yvonne wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a collection of objects, this objects contain url information, a
> > link to a picture and a descriptive text).
> > What I want to do is:
> > Displaying this data in a list of 'blocks' where each block is build of
> > the picture and the descriptive text surounded by  a link.
> >
> > I thought that this could be done with a repaeter hosting my user
> > control?
> >
> > Am I right with this approach?
> >
> > Kind regards, Yvonne