have you tried using a RegularExpressionValidator control to simply force the
user to enter the phone number in the required format. If you are not good
with regular expresions then there is a nice library at
www.regexlib.com.
"womblesjc@royell.org" wrote:
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> I have a data bound Details View control in asp.net 2.0 that formats a
> phone number. The 'Default Mode' for the control is set to Edit. The
> phone number field is a template field and I can successfully call a
> function that formats the phone number when the control is filled. But
> when updating, the value being passed in to my format function is
> vbNull instead of the value in the phone number field of the control.
> How can I get the update value to be the value of the phone number
> field?
> Here is the template field and formatting function. Thank You
>
> <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="AltPhone" SortExpression="AltPhone"
> ConvertEmptyStringToNull="False">
> <EditItemTemplate>
> <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox4" runat="server" MaxLength="14"
> Text='<%# FormatPhoneNumber(DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataIt em,
> "AltPhone")) %>'></asp:TextBox>
> </EditItemTemplate>
> </asp:TemplateField>
>
> Public Function FormatPhoneNumber(ByVal strNumber As String) As String
> Dim strTemp as String = strNumber
>
> If strTemp.Length > 0 Then
> strTemp = strTemp.Replace("(", "")
> strTemp = strTemp.Replace(")", "")
> strTemp = strTemp.Replace("-", "")
> End If
>
> Return strTemp
> End Function
>
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