Question

In a repeater control I’ve Eval binding as:

<%#Eval("PubDate", "{0:dd-MMM-yyyy}")%>

But date time format needs to be configurable from the web.config.
I want to access datetime format from web.config in markup like:

<%#Eval("PubDate", "{0:<%$ AppSettings: DateTimeFormat %>}")%>

But is is not working…
Any suggesions?

Answer 1

You can create a property on your page in code behind (e.g. AppDateTimeFormat) which accesses DateTimeFormat from the AppSettings and use it like this:

    <%#Eval("PubDate", AppDateTimeFormat)%>