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POBind repeater to a list of files and/or folders
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  1. POBind repeater to a list of files and/or folders
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    copied!<p>I would like to create a very simple image gallery. I am trying to figure out how to bind a Repeater to some kind of a custom object that would return back a list of files and/or folders. Can somebody point me in the right direction? </p> <p>UPDATE: Here's what i have so far, please let me know if there's a better way to do this</p> <p>ListView to display my folders</p> <pre><code>&lt;asp:ListView ID="lvAlbums" runat="server" DataSourceID="odsDirectories"&gt; &lt;asp:ObjectDataSource ID="odsDirectories" runat="server" SelectMethod="getDirectories" TypeName="FolderClass"&gt; &lt;SelectParameters&gt; &lt;asp:QueryStringParameter DefaultValue="" Name="album" QueryStringField="album" Type="String" /&gt; &lt;/SelectParameters&gt; &lt;/asp:ObjectDataSource&gt; </code></pre> <p>ListView to display my thumbnails</p> <pre><code>&lt;asp:ListView ID="lvThumbs" runat="server" DataSourceID="odsFiles"&gt; &lt;asp:ObjectDataSource ID="odsFiles" runat="server" SelectMethod="getFiles" TypeName="FolderClass"&gt; &lt;SelectParameters&gt; &lt;asp:QueryStringParameter Type="String" DefaultValue="" Name="album" QueryStringField="album" /&gt; &lt;/SelectParameters&gt; &lt;/asp:ObjectDataSource&gt; </code></pre> <p>And here's FolderClass</p> <pre><code>public class FolderClass { private DataSet dsFolder = new DataSet("ds1"); public static FileInfo[] getFiles(string album) { return new DirectoryInfo(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("/albums/" + album)).GetFiles(); } public static DirectoryInfo[] getDirectories(string album) { return new DirectoryInfo(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("/albums/" + album)).GetDirectories() .Where(subDir =&gt; (subDir.Name) != "thumbs").ToArray(); } } </code></pre>
 

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