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Format Date in Bind Statement inside a ListView

I have modified a master detail gridview example as per my requirement. It is working fine but date format in one of cell is displaying as “12/12/2012 12:00:00 AM”. I just want to show only “12/12/2012″. Please help, code is as below”

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Date of Failure" SortExpression="Failure_date" >
<EditItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox ID="EditFailure_date" runat="server" Columns="20" MaxLength="50" Text='<%# Bind("Failure_date") %>'></asp:TextBox>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="Failure_dateRequiredFieldValidator" runat="server" ControlToValidate="EditFailure_date" Display="Dynamic"  ErrorMessage="Can not be blank" SetFocusOnError="True"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
 </EditItemTemplate>
 <ItemStyle HorizontalAlign="Left" VerticalAlign="Top" />
 <HeaderStyle HorizontalAlign="Left" VerticalAlign="Top" />
 <ItemTemplate>
 <asp:Label ID="Failure_date" runat="server"  Text='<%# Bind("Failure_date") %>' ></asp:Label>
 </ItemTemplate>
 </asp:TemplateField>  

Answer 1

This is the format that you should use:

<%# Bind("Failure_date", "{0:dd/MM/yyyy}") %>