title: Trouble setting label text property with Eval
body: <p>Does any of you know why this is not possible? </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;asp:Label ID="lblWordSes" Font-Bold="True" EnableViewState="True" ViewStateMode="Enabled" runat="server" Text="&lt;%# string.Format(Eval("Word1").ToString()) %&gt;"&gt;&lt;/asp:Label&gt;
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  <p>i am trying to set the text value with data from the database but i can get this to work.</p>