A simple question about Databinder.Eval and Container.Dataitem

[josemauricio]

People,

I think it's a simple question that couldn't find out the answer searching in Internet that probably you can help me. I've found some examples that use databinder.eval(container.dataitem, "attributename&quot and anothers that uses just container.dataitem("attributename&quot. But I haven't guet the difference between this two of show bind information in HTML code. Could you answer this question?

Thanks a lot!

José Maurício.

 

[gwstewart]

The Container.DataItem("column-name&quot gets the data source column directly. The Eval method not only gets the data source column name, but will optionally format data. For example, the
DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "attributename", {0:C}) will format this column value as currency.