Quick note on this – spent a few minutes on getting this to work.
Formatting a date field value on a ASP:GridView did not work initially. I had a function that returns a bound field as given below. But No matter what I did, I could not get the formatting of the field to work.
Say for instance I set the format string as {0:mm-dd-yyyy}. It would still display the field in the default long format. Until I set the "HtmlEncode" to False, which saved me some time:
Public Function GetBoundField( _
ByVal dataField As String _
, ByVal headerText As String _
, ByVal headerStyle As String _
, ByVal itemStyle As String _
, ByVal dataFormatString As String _
) As BoundField
Dim bf As BoundField = Nothing
bf = New BoundField
With bf
.DataField = dataField
.HeaderText = headerText
.HeaderStyle.CssClass = headerStyle
.ItemStyle.CssClass = itemStyle
.HtmlEncode = False
.DataFormatString = dataFormatString
End With
Return bf
End Function
