Concatenating Two Properties for Display in a DropDownList

Question

Background

In our last adventure, I was attempting to properly show a Dictionary>. Thanks to the helpful answers in that post, I r

Answer 1

Maybe I'm missing something (didn't look at the earlier question), but why wouldn't you just do this?

<%# Eval("Name") + Eval("Type") %>

Answer 2

I had to convert the object to a string before concatenating the string. This worked for me.

Text='<%# Eval("LastName").ToString() + ', ' + Eval("FirstName").ToString() %>'

Answer 3

As it turns out, the problem is easily solvable if the two columns from the table are concatenated and into one column, like so:

SELECT Column1Name + ' - ' + Column2Name AS Column3Name FROM Table1 WHERE...

This turns this:

Column1Name          Column2Name
-----------          ----------- 
Stuff1               Stuff5
Stuff2               Stuff6
Stuff3               Stuff7
Stuff4               Stuff8

Into this:

Column3Name
---------------
Stuff1 - Stuff5
Stuff2 - Stuff6
Stuff3 - Stuff7
Stuff4 - Stuff8

When all else fails, think a little lower level.