Question

I have selected a bunch of data from my access database which one of the fields is a DateTime field.

I’m trying to show it formated in a GridView but when I try:

dtlJob.DataSource = genericDataSet
dtlJob.Fields(2).DataFormatString = "{0:d}"
dtlJob.DataBind()

I get this error on line 2

Error   2   'DataFormatString' is not a member of 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataControlField'.

How do I format my data?

EDIT

This is my DetailsGridView I’m trying t o show off

<asp:DetailsView ID="dtlJob" runat="server" Height="50px" Width="125px">

</asp:DetailsView>

it has nothing but its tags for I’m fetching every data by code from a database. But I want to format the Data Date Field which is appearing like this no more which data it has

Answer 1

You have to create a BoundField like the code below.

<asp:DetailsView ID="DetailsView1" runat="server" AutoGenerateRows="false" Height="50px" Width="125px">
<Fields>
    <asp:BoundField DataField="Name" HeaderText="Name" />
    <asp:BoundField DataField="Age"  HeaderText="Age" />
    <asp:BoundField DataField="Birth"  HeaderText="Birth" DataFormatString="{0:d}" />
 </Fields>
 </asp:DetailsView>

I hope that helped.

Vicente