Tim Mackey's Weblog

THANK YOU! I have been trying this for 2 days!!!!!!!!!

Thanks!!!

Excellent work. Couldn't figure this one out for the life of me!

DUDE! THANX!!!

I was about to have a brain explosion when I decided to google this problem and found the solution here. Thank you! Why are Microsoft products so full of these glitches?! I must remember that Microsoft documentation is what they would like it to do, not what it does!

Yes, this is crazy - your post saved me a lot of pain. Thanks!

helped me too. Thanks.

Mitch

i love you for this post.

Thanks,Thanks,Thanks!!! from Italy too

I set the HtmlEncode=false for all the columns in my GridView, still doesn't work...

thank you (and google) very much.

Your post was my first Google hit when searching for this problem. I WOULD HAVE spent several hours fighting this if not for your post. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Many thanks! I blew nearly an hour trying to get a price field to format as currency... Then I google'd and found your post! (Thank You!)^3

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks!

Thanks a bunch!!!!

Thanks very much for this! Was starting to get on my nerves!

THANK YOU... I was going crazy!!

Awesome work. After 8 months this post is still getting hits.
THANKS FOR THE SOLUTION. I too, like many others, was going nuts..

Thanks!!!

Thank you so much. Did anybody ever figure out if there is any logic behind this? Is it a bug?

hi kent. no idea, seems like a bug to me!

Tim,
Another butt saved here too - it was driving me batty. Thanks!

Another bug bites the dust! Thx

Great find - can't believe it doesn't work by default!!!

Thanks for the great tip. I tried for an hour to figure out what was going on. I saw the HTMLEncode property and figured it had nothing to do with the DataFormatString property, go figure...

Mahalo!

Kevin

Thnnks

Isn't this something?

Thank you!! Microsoft's quirks are endless.

I've been trying to get that to work for 3 days and thought I was gonna kill some one thanks for the help.

Over a year old and these two little lines of text are still helping people. Thank!!!

Thanks mate, these 2lines saved me tons of time.

Did anyone Thank you for this?
Thank you !!!

YOU ARE THE MAN, DOG

Staring at the GridVeiw indeed.
Bloody MS, I just wasted 1.5 hours on this crap.
Thanks.

Thanks for the fix.

It doesn't work by default because it's MICROCRAP!

THIS DID NOT WORK FOR ME. I have a column of smalldatetime and datetime and neither are affected by this. Here's my code:
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<asp:BoundField DataField="StudentBirthDate" DataFormatString="{0:MM/dd/yyyy}" HtmlEncode="false" SortExpression="StudentBirthDate" HeaderText="Student DOB" HeaderStyle-CssClass="TableHeaderStyle" HeaderStyle-HorizontalAlign="left" />
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I saw a post from Alex on Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:37:57 PM UTC. This fix didn't work for him either. Can someone address this for me please?

hi frankie. your aspx code does work. there must be a problem with the way you are binding the data. can you post that code? cheers. tim.

Thanks for responding to me Tim. You said that my code should work and said their might be something wrong with the way i was binding. That made me think. I'm using a DataAdapter to call a stored procedure. In that stored procedure, i'm returning an XML column. To do this, I had to set the ReturnProviderSpecificTypes property to True before called the Fill method of the adapter. Once I took that property out of the mix, my columns sorted perfectly. Thanks for guiding my thinking.

hi frankie. glad it helped. good luck.

THANK YOU!

Thank you!! :)

Thanks.

thanks a lot... its really helpful

another thanks, ditto to all the exclamations of joy.

Thanks man, it was helpful

Thanks!

Thanks dude this was driving me crazy !!!

you are the man / woman... thanks! stupid microsoft.

Thanks for a time saver!

Thanks that saved me from loading my gun.

Thanks!! it helped mee too . YOU ROCK

Thanks!

I was getting quite frustrated.

ASP.NET rocks and so does M$

Thanks to you and thanks to Google for helping me find you.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Want to add my thanks to the million or so others. Fortunately, thanks to you I didn't spend forever on this problem!

Chuck

Thanks for the tip, saved me some time!

Thank you man!
You saved the day.

Thanks from Portugal.

THANK YOU. I never would have guessed how to fix this.

THANK YOU. God bless you.

Thanks!Thanks!Thanks!Thanks!

Thanks a million.
The wonders of Google and people who share!

I have tried setting HtmlEncodeto false for some columns in my GridView with DataFormatString="{0:N3}"
But its still not working for me. Is there anything else I am missing?

Please help.