解析中继器的值

Question

<asp:Repeater ID="repeater" runat="server" OnItemDataBound="repeater_ItemDataBound">

<HeaderTemplate>
    <ul class="sf_newsList">
</HeaderTemplate>

<ItemTemplate>  
<asp:Literal ID="Publication_Date" runat="server" Text="{0}" />
...

Ok so i have a date coming back from the source, i need to strip this date into day and month as it currently comes back like "march 12 2012".

once parsed into a day and a month string i want to then pass it back into

<asp:Literal ID="Publication_Day" runat="server" Text="{0}" />

now ive tried some things such as

protected void repeater_ItemDataBound(object sender, RepeaterItemEventArgs e)
{
    string newsdate = "";
    if (e.Item.ItemType == ListItemType.Item || e.Item.ItemType ==  ListItemType.AlternatingItem)
    {
        Literal ltDate = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("Publication_Date");
        newsdate = ltDate.Text;
        //do parse code
        Literal ltDay = (Literal)e.Item.FindControl("Publication_Day");
        ltDay.Text = newsdate;
    }       
}

but when i step through the publication_date is only returning {0} as a string not the date.

i know the source is fine, as if i just put the date on the template is shows up on the front end.

Any ideas what im doing wrong?

Answer 1

It is returnin {0} because it is on the Text property of Literal.

You could use the DataBinder.Eval to read the column of your DataSource from e.Item.DateItem . Since you know what is the column you want to read you could get the DateTime object direct from datasource, for sample:

// get the dateTime from datasource
DateTime datePublication = DateTime.Parse(DataBinder.Eval(e.Item.DataItem, "DatePublicationColumn").ToString());

// show the day name
ltDay.Text = datePublication.ToString("dddd");

Where I add DatePublicationColumn , you specify the column.