ListView Binding Twice? Strange Behaviour

[Richard Weeks]

I have a very simple RadListView populated from a DataSet:

Data:

HeadingOne  HeadingTwo  DataValue
First       Second      Data Value
First       Second      Data Value
First       Third       Data Value
First       Third       Data Value
First       Third       Data Value

ListView:

<telerik:RadListView
    ID="MyListView"
    runat="server"
    OnNeedDataSource="MyListView_OnNeedDataSource">

    <ItemTemplate>

        <%# InsertHeadingOne() %>

        <%# InsertHeadingTwo() %>

        <p><%# Eval("DataValue") %></p>

    </ItemTemplate>

</telerik:RadListView>

I thought I was being very cunning in my grouping efforts. The two method calls above are:

string lastHeadingOne = string.Empty;
string lastHeadingTwo = string.Empty;

protected string InsertHeadingOne()
{
    string currentHeadingOne = Eval("HeadingOne").ToString();

    if (currentHeadingOne.Length == 0)
    {
        currentHeadingOne = string.Empty;
    }

    if (this.lastHeadingOne != currentHeadingOne)
    {
        this.lastHeadingOne = currentHeadingOne;

        return string.Format("<h1>{0}</h1>", currentHeadingOne);
    }
    else
    {
        return string.Empty;
    }
}

protected string InsertHeadingTwo()
{
    string currentHeadingTwo = Eval("HeadingTwo").ToString();

    if (currentHeadingTwo.Length == 0)
    {
        currentHeadingTwo = string.Empty;
    }

    if (this.lastHeadingTwo != currentHeadingTwo)
    {
        this.lastHeadingTwo = currentHeadingTwo;

        return string.Format("<h2>{0}</h2>", currentHeadingTwo);
    }
    else
    {
        return string.Empty;
    }
}

But when I run the page, I get this output:

Second
Data Value
Data Value

Third
Data Value
Data Value
Data Value

What I should be getting is this?:

First

Second
Data Value
Data Value

Third
Data Value
Data Value
Data Value

When I step through in debug I see the correct strings being returned but for the 5 rows in the DataSet, there are 10 calls to each method! It seems the second pass wipes the values from the first - but then, if that is the case, how did the Heading Twos get returned? I'm confused :)

Very strange. It works really well for the level 2 headings but not at all from the level one. Can anyone help?

Many thanks in advance,
Richard

[Rosen]

Hi Richard,

Are you using latest version Q1 2010 SP2 of Telerik.Web.UI assemblies, as our developers have already addressed similar problem? If not, please try the latest service pack and see if there is change in the observed behavior.

Sincerely yours,
Rosen
the Telerik team

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