Question

I have the following gridview:

        <asp:GridView ID="gdvReport" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataSourceID="sdseport">
        <Columns>
            <asp:BoundField DataField="Phone" HeaderText="Phone" SortExpression="Phone">
                <ControlStyle Width="250px" />
            </asp:BoundField>
            <asp:BoundField DataField="ToCall" HeaderText="Foramt" SortExpression="ToCall" />
        </Columns>
    </asp:GridView>

The second row is a bool in the database, but I do not want to show a checkbox or true\false to the users.

How do I display something like this instead?
0 = Don’t Call
1 = Call Us

Answer 1

I ended up just using OnRowDataBound for this.

<asp:GridView ID="gdvReport" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataSourceID="sdseport" OnRowDataBound="OnRowDataBound">
    <Columns>
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Phone" HeaderText="Phone" SortExpression="Phone">
            <ControlStyle Width="250px" />
        </asp:BoundField>
        <asp:BoundField DataField="ToCall" HeaderText="Foramt" SortExpression="ToCall" />
    </Columns>
</asp:GridView>


protected void OnRowDataBound(object sender, EventArgs e)
{  
    GridViewRowEventArgs ea = e as GridViewRowEventArgs;
    if (ea.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
    {
        DataRowView drv = ea.Row.DataItem as DataRowView;
        Object ob = drv["Phone"];
        if (!Convert.IsDBNull(ob))
        {
            bool iParsedValue = false;
            if (bool.TryParse(ob.ToString(), out iParsedValue))
            {
                TableCell cell = ea.Row.Cells[1];
                if (iParsedValue == false)
                {

                    cell.Text = "Don't Call";
                }
                else
                {
                    cell.Text = "Call Us";
                }

            }
        }
    }
}

And it is working great now.