Can I use an IF statement in a GridView ItemTemplate?

C#.NET use the below code

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false">
<Columns>
    <asp:BoundField DataField="Id" HeaderText="Id" ItemStyle-Width="50" />
    <asp:BoundField DataField="Name" HeaderText="Name" ItemStyle-Width="150" />
    <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Status" ItemStyle-Width="100">
        <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:Label Text='<%# Eval("Status").ToString() == "A" ? "Absent" : "Present" %>'
                runat="server" />
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>

VB.NET use the below code

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false">
<Columns>
    <asp:BoundField DataField="Id" HeaderText="Id" ItemStyle-Width="50" />
    <asp:BoundField DataField="Name" HeaderText="Name" ItemStyle-Width="150" />
    <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Status" ItemStyle-Width="100">
        <ItemTemplate>
            <asp:Label Text='<%# If(Eval("Status").ToString() = "A", "Absent", "Present") %>'
                runat="server" />
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:TemplateField>
</Columns>

Instead of Eval you can use any given public function. So you might try and do something like the following:

<ItemTemplate>
    <%# (String.IsNullOrEmpty(Eval("Email").ToString()) ? String.Empty : String.Format("<a href='mailto:{0}'>{1}</a>", Eval("Email"), Eval("Name")) %>
</ItemTemplate>

If have not tried the exact syntax, but I'm using something like that in one of my pages.