How To Set a Date Format In GridView Using ASP.NET 2.0
A very common desire is to set a column of a gridview to display just the month, day and year of a DateTime type.The problem is the by default, the HtmlEncode property of the boundfield attribute is set to True
<asp :GridView ID=“GridView1″ runat=“server”>
<columns>
<asp :BoundField DataField=“DOB”
DataFormatString=“{0:M-dd-yyyy}” HtmlEncode =“True” HeaderText=“Date of Birth” />
</columns>
</asp>
<columns>
<asp :BoundField DataField=“DOB”
DataFormatString=“{0:M-dd-yyyy}” HtmlEncode =“True” HeaderText=“Date of Birth” />
</columns>
</asp>
The second choice is to make the column a template and simply set the format string directly in the Label ,Text Fields or bind data direct as follows.
<asp :GridView ID=“GridView1″ runat=“server”>
<columns>
<%# Eval(“DOB”, “{0:M-dd-yyyy}”) %></columns>
</asp>
<columns>
<%# Eval(“DOB”, “{0:M-dd-yyyy}”) %></columns>
</asp>
Please explain in more details
Thanks….!
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