Hello All:
I have a GridView in a user control that has its datasource assigned
dynamically. It's working well, however, date values are displaying
mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss and I only want a short date format. I don't know
which column will hold a date prior to runtime. Is there any way to
set it on the fly?
-Bob

Hi Bob,

Interesting challenge. It took a while but I came up with something that
*seems* to work. See the comments inline in the code sample

Could you give the code below a test and see if it does what you want?

Let us know?

Ken
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]


<%@ control language="VB" classname="dgridusr" %>
<script runat="server">
Protected Sub Page_Load _
(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
If Not IsPostBack Then
GridView1.DataSource = CreateDataSource()
GridView1.DataBind()
End If
End Sub

Protected Sub GridView1_RowDataBound _
(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As _
System.Web.UI.WebControls.GridViewRowEventArgs)
' Routine to display an unknown DateTime column
' as a short date at runtime
' By Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP]
' July 28/06
'
' Make sure this is a datarow being bound
If e.Row.RowType = DataControlRowType.DataRow Then
' Create variables to hold values
Dim dtview As System.Data.DataRowView
Dim dt As DateTime
Dim intCounter As Integer
' Get the contents of the current row
' as a DataRowView
dtview = e.Row.DataItem
' Loop through the individual values in the
' DataRowView's ItemArray
For intCounter = 0 To _
dtview.Row.ItemArray.Length - 1
' Check if the current value is
' a System.DateTime type
If TypeOf dtview.Row.Item(intCounter) Is _
System.DateTime Then
' If it is a DateTime, cast it as such
' into the variable
dt = dtview.Row.Item(intCounter)
' Set the text of the current cell
' as the short date representation
' of the datetime
e.Row.Cells(intCounter).Text = _
dt.ToShortDateString
End If
Next
End If
End Sub

Function CreateDataSource() As Data.DataTable
' Provides some dummy data
Dim dt As New Data.DataTable
Dim dr As Data.DataRow
dt.Columns.Add(New Data.DataColumn _
("IntegerValue", GetType(Int32)))
dt.Columns.Add(New Data.DataColumn _
("StringValue", GetType(String)))
dt.Columns.Add(New Data.DataColumn _
("CurrencyValue", GetType(Double)))
dt.Columns.Add(New Data.DataColumn _
("DateTime", GetType(DateTime)))
Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 To 5
dr = dt.NewRow()
dr(0) = i
dr(1) = "Item " + i.ToString()
dr(2) = 1.23 * (i + 1)
dr(3) = Now.AddDays(i)
dt.Rows.Add(dr)
Next i
Return dt
End Function
</script>

<asp:gridview id="GridView1"
runat="server"
onrowdatabound="GridView1_RowDataBound">
</asp:gridview>

"Bob Phillips" <phil1630 (AT) bellsouth (DOT) net> wrote

Thanks so much, Ken!! Looks like it will do the trick.
-Bob

Ken Cox [Microsoft MVP] wrote: