go to external site if it's an hyperlink
<p>I have a "view" link to an aspx page in a gridview for each row. </p>

<p>Depending on the type of resource 1)File or 2)Hyperlink , it should either download the file or go to the hyperlink mentioned.</p>

<pre><code>&lt;asp:TemplateField HeaderText="View"&gt;
                &lt;ItemTemplate&gt;
                    &lt;a id="View" href="../resources/ResourceFile.aspx?Id=&lt;%# Eval("Id")%&gt;" target="_blank"&gt;View&lt;/a&gt;
                &lt;/ItemTemplate&gt;
    &lt;/asp:TemplateField&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>I got it working for the file type but how do I redirect to an external link like "www.yahoo.com" if it's an hyperlink.</p>

<p>In the code behind </p>

<pre><code>if(resource.ResourceType.ToLower().Equals("hyperlink")){
                    // what should i do here?
               // the link is stored in resource.value
                }
</code></pre>

<p>EDIT : Figured that the link should have an http:// prefix to work. Feeling stupid now :)</p>
