Formatting a date in a FormView control?

[David Veeneman]

What's the simplest way to format a date in a FormView control? I've been
looking for something like a DataFormatString property, but it doesn't look
like the control itself, nor the consitutent controls in its templates, has
a property like that. What I want to do is apply a ShortDate format to a
date value.

What's the best way to handle this? Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Try clicking on the control for date and on the Smart Tag go to Edit
bindings...

You can apply different types of formatting on the field.... {0}

I forget the parmater for shortdatetime. Maybe {0:d} ?

 

[David Veeneman]

Thanks much-- that's exactly what I was looking for!