Can't format a databound date

[cmay]

I am using asp.net 2.0's gridview to display some data.

My data source is a collection of custom objects.

These objects expose a property which is a date.

When I databind and try to format the date with
DataFormatString="{0:d}", I get no change to the display. I still get
hours/minutes/seconds am/pm in the grid.

If I change my object to return a string instead of a date, then the
format string works like I would expect it to. Is there no way to get
it to format a date object?

I don't want to have to change my strongly typed date property to a
string just for display purposes.

Is there anything I can do?

[Elton W]

Hi cmay,

Set BoundField's HtmlEncode="False"

HTH

Elton Wang

"cmay" wrote:

I am using asp.net 2.0's gridview to display some data.

My data source is a collection of custom objects.

These objects expose a property which is a date.

When I databind and try to format the date with
DataFormatString="{0:d}", I get no change to the display. I still get
hours/minutes/seconds am/pm in the grid.

If I change my object to return a string instead of a date, then the
format string works like I would expect it to. Is there no way to get
it to format a date object?

I don't want to have to change my strongly typed date property to a
string just for display purposes.

Is there anything I can do?

[cmay]

That did it!

Thanks