Strong typed Container in WebForms - asp.net

Question

Take following example of code: (ASP.NET WebForms)
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="Contents" runat="server">
<div class="blogpost-list">
<asp:Repeater ID="blogList" runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>
<h2 class="blogpost-title">
<%# (Container.DataItem as BlogPost).Title %>
</h2>
<p class="blogpost-meta">
</p>
<p class="blogpost-content">
<%# (Container.DataItem as BlogPost).ParsedContent %>
</p>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
</div>
</asp:Content>
Now what I want to do, is to avoid the content casting of the DataItem, ie. this line:
<%# (Container.DataItem as BlogPost).Title %>
I'm feeling inspired of the ASP.NET MVC, and was wondering if I could create a strong typed, view, and define it like:
<%# Page
Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Blog.Master"
AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="Default.aspx.cs"
Inherits="MyBlog.Default<MyStrongViewType>"
%>
Or any other way to avoid typecasting, and in general, have a strong typed view for ASP.NET WebForms.
Any good ideas?

Answer 1

.NET 4.5 has a nifty solution for this. You just set the datatype you want to use on the repeater itself.
<asp:Repeater ID="blogList" runat="server" ItemType="BlogPost">
<ItemTemplate>
<h2 class="blogpost-title">
<%# Item.Title %>
</h2>
<p class="blogpost-meta">
</p>
<p class="blogpost-content">
<%# Item.ParsedContent %>
</p>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
See:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2011/09/02/strongly-typed-data-controls-asp-net-vnext-series.aspx
http://www.asp.net/web-forms/videos/aspnet-web-forms-vnext/aspnet-vnext-videos-strongly-typed-data-controls

Answer 2

This might be a bit late, but this seems a nice solution:
http://dotnetminute.blogspot.com/2012/04/creating-strongly-typed-repeater.html

Answer 3

I think you can inherit from Repeater control and make it generic (e.g. Repeater). But you'll need to rewrite/inherit RepeaterItem class too.
You can use this or this article as example.