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I'm stumped on something that would seem to be pretty simple.

I have data bound to a repeater control. One of the fields is a date field
from the SQL table:

<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "seminarDate")%>

This, by default, displays as:

10/12/2004 12:00:00

I'd like to format it as:

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Can that be done with inline functions?

I've tried something like this:

<%# microsoft.VisualBasic.format(DataBinder.Eval(Conta iner.DataItem,
"seminarTimes")), "DDDD") %>

But I get a " Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'ToString'
can be called without a narrowing conversion: " error.



-Darrel

Hi,

DataBinder.Eval takes a 3rd parameter to specify the format.

"Darrel" <> wrote in message
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I'm stumped on something that would seem to be pretty simple.

I have data bound to a repeater control. One of the fields is a date field
from the SQL table:

<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "seminarDate")%>

This, by default, displays as:

10/12/2004 12:00:00

I'd like to format it as:

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

Can that be done with inline functions?

I've tried something like this:

<%# microsoft.VisualBasic.format(DataBinder.Eval(Conta iner.DataItem,
"seminarTimes")), "DDDD") %>

But I get a " Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'ToString'
can be called without a narrowing conversion: " error.



-Darrel

Specify the display format in the DataBinder.Eval method as

<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"seminarDate"," {0:dddd,MMM dd,yyyy}")%>

to display the date in the format that u mentioned

"Darrel" wrote:

> I'm stumped on something that would seem to be pretty simple.
>
> I have data bound to a repeater control. One of the fields is a date field
> from the SQL table:
>
> <%#DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "seminarDate")%>
>
> This, by default, displays as:
>
> 10/12/2004 12:00:00
>
> I'd like to format it as:
>
> Tuesday, October 12, 2004
>
> Can that be done with inline functions?
>
> I've tried something like this:
>
> <%# microsoft.VisualBasic.format(DataBinder.Eval(Conta iner.DataItem,
> "seminarTimes")), "DDDD") %>
>
> But I get a " Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'ToString'
> can be called without a narrowing conversion: " error.
>
>
>
> -Darrel
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

> Specify the display format in the DataBinder.Eval method as
>
> <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,"seminarDate"," {0:dddd,MMM
> dd,yyyy}")%>

Thanks, Karmagam...that was easier than I thought!

-Darrel

> DataBinder.Eval takes a 3rd parameter to specify the format.

Thanks, Shiva!

-Darrel