Is there a way to customize an objectlist control such that each listitem displays in a different color. Customization is dependent on the data so needs to happen in codebehind.  There is no dataitemcreated event exposed? Is the answer to create a custom control?  I have worked with asp.net controls but new to mobile controls.  All I am trying to do is display a dataset in nxn tabular display with each item a different color and also a link, perhaps objectlist is not the answer, but some other control?

May be It's too late for answer.

But recently I 've encountered same problem.

My work aroud is "use data binding"

Example)

In aspx

<mobile:ObjectList id="ObjectList1" runat="server">
 <DeviceSpecific>
  <Choice Xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/mobile/html32template">
   <ItemTemplate>
   <mobile:Label id="lblCompanyName" runat="server" Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(((MobileListItem)Container).DataItem,"CompanyName")%>' Visible='<%# IsLabelVisible(((MobileListItem)Container).DataItem) %>'>

And codebehind ,I defined a method "IsLabelVisible" to switch visibility on data value.

public bool IsLinkVisible(object obj)
  {
   Job job = (Job) obj;
   if(job.InterviewDate == null || job.InterviewDate == string.Empty)
   {
    return true;
   }
   return false;
  }