FileInfo array won't show up in DataList

Question

My aim is to habe a listing of all wave files in a specific folder in my webapplication project. So I tried this code:

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string path = Server.MapPath("/alldata/wav/");
        DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(path);
        FileInfo[] filelist = di.GetFiles("*.wav", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
        DataList_filelist.DataSource = filelist;
        DataList_filelist.DataBind();
    }

Markup is:

        <asp:DataList ID="DataList_filelist" runat="server" RepeatColumns="1">
        </asp:DataList>

But my DataList won't be displayed. What did I do wrong?

Answer 1

How about adding an Item Template which will let you display the required thing like

<ItemTemplate>
    <%# Eval("Name") %>
</ItemTemplate>

This should show you the name of the files in the array.

code might show up all the properties if you were to use GridView wherein you can AutoGenerateColumns

Answer 2

Assuming you're populating the datasource (ie you're looking in the right folder, and ASP has read permissions) Just skip the FileInfo[] array, and use the DirectoryInfo.GetFiles as the datasource.

string path = Server.MapPath("/alldata/wav/");
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(path);
DataList_filelist.DataSource = di.GetFiles("*.wav");
DataList_filelist.DataBind();