Editing in a gridview

[Tina]

I'm in the RowDataBound event for a gridview. my money fields and dates
are in unedited format. The following works fine but is this the easiest
way? Isn't there a way to apply formating to the string without having to
convert the string to its native type and then back to an edited string?

double mydouble = double.Parse(e.Row.Cells[totalcharge].Text);
e.Row.Cells[totalcharge].Text = mydouble.ToString("c");
DateTime myDateTime = DateTime.Parse(e.Row.Cells[designdate].Text);
e.Row.Cells[designdate].Text = myDateTime.ToShortDateString();
Thanks,
T

[dunny]

Tina

Unless you have row-specific rules you can avoid RowDataBound
alltogether and change your column defs to something like:

<asp:BoundField DataFormatString="{0:c}" DataField="totalcharge" ...
<asp:BoundField DataFormatString="{0:d}" DataField="designdate"
HtmlEncode="false"...

Remember the HtmlEncode when formatting dates!

Mark

On Jan 19, 1:08 pm, "Tina" <[e-mail]:

I'm in the RowDataBound event for a gridview. my money fields and dates
are in unedited format. The following works fine but is this the easiest
way? Isn't there a way to apply formating to the string without having to
convert the string to its native type and then back to an edited string?

double mydouble = double.Parse(e.Row.Cells[totalcharge].Text);
e.Row.Cells[totalcharge].Text = mydouble.ToString("c");
DateTime myDateTime = DateTime.Parse(e.Row.Cells[designdate].Text);
e.Row.Cells[designdate].Text = myDateTime.ToShortDateString();
Thanks,
T

[Tina]

my data is created at run time.
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Tina

Unless you have row-specific rules you can avoid RowDataBound
alltogether and change your column defs to something like:

<asp:BoundField DataFormatString="{0:c}" DataField="totalcharge" ...
<asp:BoundField DataFormatString="{0:d}" DataField="designdate"
HtmlEncode="false"...

Remember the HtmlEncode when formatting dates!

Mark

On Jan 19, 1:08 pm, "Tina" <[e-mail]:

> I'm in the RowDataBound event for a gridview. my money fields and
dates
are in unedited format. The following works fine but is this the easiest
way? Isn't there a way to apply formating to the string without having
to
convert the string to its native type and then back to an edited string?

double mydouble = double.Parse(e.Row.Cells[totalcharge].Text);
e.Row.Cells[totalcharge].Text = mydouble.ToString("c");
DateTime myDateTime = DateTime.Parse(e.Row.Cells[designdate].Text);
e.Row.Cells[designdate].Text = myDateTime.ToShortDateString();
Thanks,
T