Formating a date field in ASP .Net 2.0 detailview

[John Bailey]

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?

[Phillip Williams]

"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/lib...ng(VS.80).aspx

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HTH,
Phillip Williams
http://www.societopia.net
http://www.webswapp.com
"John Bailey" wrote:

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?

[clickon]

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.

"Phillip Williams" wrote:

"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/lib...ng(VS.80).aspx

--
HTH,
Phillip Williams
http://www.societopia.net
http://www.webswapp.com
"John Bailey" wrote:

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?