Binding Repeater with Dictionary<string, Dictionary<int,[object]> - asp.net

Question

I am new to .NET, so I'm struggling with this. I have a content page, with a repeater control. I have a Dictionary, which is a Dictionary<string, Dictionary<int,[object]>>. I want the value of the controls inside the repeater control to get it from the object attributes - Candidate Name, would be object.CandName, candidate phone would be object.Phone etc.
I am not sure how to use Eval for this type of Dictionary. Most of the examples point to Eval("Value"), but it is not giving the correct value for me. Kindly help!
<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="content" Runat="Server">
<div id="rcontent">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Label ID="lblerror" runat="server" Text="" Visible="true" CssClass="alert"></asp:Label>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div id ="rptdiv">
<asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server" EnableViewState="false">
<ItemTemplate>
<div id="Div3">
<table class="GridViewStyleNoBorder" width=750px cellspacing="0" border="0" >
<tr>
<td class="PagerStyle" colspan="4">
<asp:Label ID="lblName" Runat="server"
Text='<%= Need the value of the [object].objectproperty from dictionary here %>' />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
This is my Page_Load code behind - BLDecision is my business layer code, which returns the dictionary and dictionary values are correct. I checked them in debug mode.
Code Behind:
Dictionary(int, Dictionary(int, InterviewFeedback)) ;
CandIntDetails = new Dictionary(int, Dictionary(int, InterviewFeedback))();
BLDecision objBLDecision = new BLDecision();
int ReqCategoryID = 0;
if (Request.QueryString["ReqCategoryID"] != null)
ReqCategoryID = int.Parse(Request.QueryString["ReqCategoryID"].ToString());
CandIntDetails = objBLDecision.GetCandidatesforReqCategory(ReqCategoryID);
Repeater1.DataSource = CandIntDetails;
Repeater1.DataBind();
Should I use from codebehind, can I not do Eval('<% ....%>') in the aspx page?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

You cannot do it with only one repeater. Since you have a container inside a container, you need a Repeater inside a repeater:
<asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server" EnableViewState="false">
<ItemTemplate>
<div id="Div3">
<table class="GridViewStyleNoBorder" width=750px cellspacing="0" border="0" >
<asp:Repeater ID="Repeater2" runat="server" DataSource='<%# Eval("Value")' >
<ItemTemplate>
<tr>
<td class="PagerStyle" colspan="4">
<asp:Label ID="lblName" Runat="server"
Text='<%# Eval("Name") %>' />
</td>
</tr>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
</table>
</div>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>

Answer 2

If CandIntDetails is a Dictionary<int, Dictionary<int, InterviewFeedback>>, you need to extract from that the specific collection you want to use as the data source of your repeater. The reason why is because you want to render a collection of InterviewFeedback objects, which CandIntDetails is not. CandIntDetails probably looks something like this:
{
46: {
0: [InterviewFeedback],
1: [InterviewFeedback],
2: [InterviewFeedback]
}
}
It's not clear from your post what the keys are for the inner or outer dictionaries, so this is speculative. If the outer key is the the category ID (not sure why GetCandidatesforReqCategory would return something like that), and if you don't care about the inner dictionary keys, you can extract your data source like this:
Repeater1.DataSource = CandIntDetails[ReqCategoryID].Values;
That will make your data source a straight collection of InterviewFeedback objects. Once that's your data source, you can Eval to access the properties of the InterviewFeedback objects.