Question

Is there a way to format a gridview column footer value as currency. I’v set the DataFormatString of the BoundField to {0:c} but this doesn’t seem to affect the footer. Do I have to do it in the RowDataBound event?

Answer 1

I ended up doing it in a way similar to this…

protected void gridView1_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    double dVal = 0.0;

    if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
    {
        dVal += Convert.ToDouble(e.Row.Cells[1].Text);
    }

    if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.Footer)
    {
        e.Row.Cells[1].Text = dVal.ToString("c");
    }
}