Is it possible to do custom grouping in the ASP.NET ListView control?

Question

You can only define a GroupItemCount in the ListView, but what if you want to do grouping based on a property of the items in the data source? Sort of an ad-hoc group by. Th

Answer 1

When I had to add basic group headings in a repeater I did so with a Literal control in the ItemTemplate:

The 'GetGroupHeading' method in the code kept track of the previous group heading and sent back '

Group Name

', or an empty string if we were on the same group as the previous item. As I said though, I did this on a Repeater, so not sure if it will cover what you need for a ListView.