I have simple ASP2 Web project with page displaying data from BLL (Business Logic Layer).
On web page, GridView binding to BLL object returning ArrayList.

What do I need to display phone column in (###) ###-#### format?
GridView does not have column info at design time, I am binding programatically at runtime

I know, I need to change property BoundField, DataFormatString, HtmlEncode=“false”, etc.

Imar where are you?

Thanks in advance.

I am not sure I fully understand the problem. Why can't you set these properties? Because you don't know where the PhoneNumber will end up?

I think you could do this in code behind when the data is added. Take a look at this thread:

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_...97&whichpage=1

Especially page 2 has some code you may be able to use...

Imar
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