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

Yes Nick gave a great lead. Here's my code-behind

Dim sCategory_Descr As String
Function GetGroupHeading(ByVal sGroupName As String) As String
    Dim sReturn As String
    If sCategory_Descr <> sGroupName Then
        sCategory_Descr = sGroupName
        sReturn = "
Category: " & UCase(sGroupName) & "
"
    Else
        sReturn = ""
    End If
        Return sReturn
End Function 

And my item_template