DataFormatString in CodeBehind

Question

I want to fix the way in which dates shows in my Gridview, I have tried this:

private void Temp_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)     
{
        if(e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
        {
            e.Row.Cells[6].Attributes.Add("DataFormatString", "{0:d}");
        }
}

Since the gridvirws are generating while runnig, I can't do it as i would normally do:

<asp:BoundField DataFormatString="{0:d}" DataField="Date" HeaderText="Date" ReadOnly="True" SortExpression="Date" />

so I can II do it? Thanks!

Answer 1

If you don't know how many grids your page will have, it might be a good idea to use a Repeater . If you do so, you will be able to use the DataFormatString property of the BoundField like you said.