Hello,

What I need to do is return a date in the format of:

Sept. 7

Where it only returns the month (in short-name format) and day. The closest way I saw was using the "m" format option (returns September 7). I want to be able to do this in a Databinder.Eval expression. A custom method (if possible) could be a possible solution, althought I don't know if you can use methods in the data binding expression.

Or would code-behind binding be preferrable for this?

Thanks,

Brian

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Brian

Hi,

The only way I know to achieve this is to declare an Enum in your code-behind and populate it with the abbreviated month names.

Enum Months
  Jan
  Feb
  Mar
  ...
End Enum

This way you juct get the corresponding 4rd month name using the following line...

    Dim month as String = [Enum].GetName(GetType(Months), 3)

since the starting index is 0. I am also still searching for a built-in formatting function but since I can't find one yet, I'm using this approach instead.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Marlon



Marlon Villarama

Hi,
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Price", "{0:c}") %>
change your formatstring according to Sept. 7
Hope this helps.

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Mehdi.:)

Hey,

The {0:c} is microsoft specific, and I don't think I could implement my own custom formatter. Someone let me know if I'm wrong. At any rate, I implemented something similar to Marlon's idea, except I used a function and a select statement. How I adjusted it was using an ItemDataBound event (I was using a repeater control) and changing the text there.

Thanks for your help,

Brian

try this,
<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "yourdatecolumn","{0:MMM. d}") %>


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Mehdi.:)

OK, I'll give it a shot.