Question

I have the following code in the columns section of my GridView:

<Columns>
      <asp:boundfield datafield="Nominal-Anual" HeaderText="Nominal anual"/>
      <asp:boundfield datafield="Anual" headertext="Anual" sortexpression="Anual" />
      <asp:boundfield datafield="Semestral" headertext="Semestral" DataFormatString="{0:0.00}" />
      <asp:BoundField DataField="Trimestral" HeaderText="Semestral" HtmlEncode="false" DataFormatString="{0:00.0000}" />
      <asp:BoundField DataField="Mensual" HeaderText="Mensual" />
</Columns>

This gridview is feed from a datatable wich all datacolumns are of string type.

My problem is that the DataFormatString is not being applied and i dont know why.

Im getting a lots of decimals in all columns included the ones with dataformatstrings.

What could be happening?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards.

Jose

Answer 1

Try

<asp:boundfield datafield="Semestral" headertext="Semestral" DataFormatString="{0:0.00}" HtmlEncode="false" />

I’ve seen this happening because (and correct me if I’m wrong) the field value is HtmlEncoded before applying the format making the format string have no effect.

Response to comment:

You can try using the RowDataBound event.

The RowDataBound event is raised when
a data row (represented by a
GridViewRow object) is bound to data
in the GridView control. This enables
you to provide an event-handling
method that performs a custom routine,
such as modifying the values of the
data bound to the row, whenever this
event occurs.