missing a using directive or an assembly reference

Are you referencing System.web and system.data.  Check your project explorer, expand the references, see if they are in there.  If they are not add the refrences

Which line is the compiler error on?

both system.web and system.data are refereced.

here are the lines the errors are thrown:

BulletedList MyList = new BulletedList();

MyList.Items.Add(MyItem);

Are you using .Net 1.1 or 2.0 ?

.Net 1.1 Framework

Then thats your problem, the BulletedList control was introduced in 2.0.

There are some suggested workarounds for creating a BulletedList with 1.1 here:

    http://aspalliance.com/247

Is an arraylist available in .Net 1.1?

Based on one of the workaround solutions I could bind an arraylist

<ul>
<asp:Repeater ID="TopMenu" Runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>
<li>
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "MenuItems") %>
</li>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
</ul>

ArrayList MenuItems = New ArrayList()

I'm still getting errors and not making much headway with this.

Yup, ArrayList is under the System.Collections namespace.

is there a good article or tutorial on creating an arraylist using C#?

I've added the System.Collections namespace

But, I'm still having trouble creating the arraylist, which is just a symptom of not know what I'm doing.

Thanks for your help.

well, I made some headway:

namespace compass.user_controls
{
      using System;
      using System.Collections;
      using System.Data;
      using System.Drawing;
      using System.Web;
      using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
      using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

      /// <summary>
      ///            Summary description for TopNavBar.
      /// </summary>
      public class TopNavBar : System.Web.UI.UserControl
      {
            public ArrayList MenuItems = new ArrayList();

      private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
            {
                  // Put user code to initialize the page here
                  
                  ArrayList MenuItems = new ArrayList();
                  MenuItems.Add("About Us");
                  MenuItems.Add("Contact Us");
                  MenuItems.Add("Customer Support");
                  MenuItems.Add("Site Map");
            }

I'm not getting any errors, but where am I going wrong on binding my arraylist?

<ul>
<asp:Repeater ID="TopMenu" Runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>
<li>
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "MenuItems") %>
</li>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
</ul>

What exactly are you having trouble with ?

ArrayList is fairly simple:

    public void Wibble()
    {
        ArrayList arr = new ArrayList();
        arr.Add("Value 1");
        arr.Add("Value 2");
    }

I almost have it working.  This is what I've got:

repeater control:

<ul>
<asp:Repeater ID="TopMenu" Runat="server">
<ItemTemplate>
<li>
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "MenuItems") %>
</li>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
</ul>

code-behind:

namespace compass.user_controls
{
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

/// <summary>
///            Summary description for TopNavBar.
/// </summary>
public class TopNavBar : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Repeater TopMenu;
public ArrayList MenuItems = new ArrayList();

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// Put user code to initialize the page here
                  
ArrayList MenuItems = new ArrayList();
MenuItems.Add("About Us");
MenuItems.Add("Contact Us");
MenuItems.Add("Customer Support");
MenuItems.Add("Site Map");
                  
TopMenu.DataSource = MenuItems;
TopMenu.DataBind();
}

compiler error message:

DataBinder.Eval: 'System String' does not contain a property with the name MenuItems

do I need to provide more information or is my question presented incorrectly?

thank you carl

what would be the better approach to bind the arraylist to my repeater control?