Formating a date field in ASP .Net 2.0 detailview

[Guest]

Okay, I am using a detail view to display some data. Two of the fields are
date fields. I can't seem to get them to display properly. I have tried a
variety of options in the DataFormatString property for the columns in
question, but nothing is working. Is there a particular trick to this?

 

[Guest]

"When the HtmlEncode property is true, the value of the field is HTML encoded
to its string representation before the formatting string is applied. For
some objects, such as dates, you might want to control how the object is
displayed with a formatting string. In those cases, you must set the
HtmlEncode property to false."

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/li...trols.boundfield.dataformatstring(VS.80).aspx

 

[Guest]

If you are using an SQL data source you can also control how the data is
formatted using the CAST and CONVERT funtions in the query it's self so no
formatting is required in the control.

 

[elizas]

Formating the string before displaying in ASP.NET

In Some cases while displaying a large number it will be nice if we can format the number to a more readable format
Like : Reputation Point : 537456
Can be more readable if we can write it as Reputation Point : 537,456
ASP.NET provide features like String.Format(format,arg0) to format arguments into different forms.
For above solution you can implement

Response.Write(String.Format("{0:#,###}", 123456789));
Which will print 123,456,789

{0:#,###} → Known as the format string where “{ ,}”are compulsory to mentation.
The first part before ':' represent the argument number & it will be an integer.
The second part after ':' represent the format that you want your argument to be converted.