You can't use the linkItem.href directly on internal links because it's in the internal permanentlink format.

If you want a link from each link item ute linkitem.ToMappedLink() or

Use PermanentLinkMapStore.TryToMapped if you want to create you're own links.

/Per

The following blog post should guide you on your way:
http://marekblotny.blogspot.com/2009/02/episerver-5-r2-and-link-collection.html

Yes - this is how EPiServer stores each link item in the database (as part of the PermanentLinkMapStore), if you inspect the LinkItem object you'll see that there ia a method called

.ToMappedLink() which will give you the mapped friendly url which I imagine is what you wish to render to the page.

You may also find this blog post handy Convert a LinkItemCollection to a list of PageData

Thanks, everyone.  I appreciate the help.

What I was looking for was the GetMappedHref() method.  This returns the correct link.

<a href="<%# ((EPiServer.SpecializedProperties.LinkItem)Container.DataItem).GetMappedHref() %> %>"><%# Eval("Text") %></a>

I'm having this problem in the edit mode on a CMS 5 site, after updating some pages programmatically. A few of the pages updated got their linkURL messed up, and displays links like the above. What causes this?

These pages have ~link/[guid].aspx style links in the edit tree as well as in page lists on the site.

BR

Jakob