Format Date in Bind Statement inside a ListView

Question

is there a way that I can format a Date binded in a ListView?

I have this snippet of ListView

<ListView ID="lvView" runat="server">
    <ItemTemplate>
        //... some bounded data
        <asp:Label ID="lblDate" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("RequiredDate") %>' />
        //... another bounded data
    </ItemTemplate>
</ListView>

Since RequiredDate is a DateTime it will display somethine like this 10/20/2010 11:08:55 AM

What I want is to Format that date to output something like this Oct. 20, 2010. Normally if it is a DateTime I can write something like this requiredDate.ToString("MMMM dd, yyyy") but inside the ListView binded data I cannot do that.

I don't want to use OnItemDatabound. I just want it to be formatted inline. Is this possible?

score 27 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 29 '12 at 14:54

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Should be like...

Text='<%# Bind("RequiredDate", "{0:MMM dd, yyyy}") %>'

edited Nov 29 '12 at 14:54

Eonasdan

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answered Oct 20 '10 at 03:38

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I have tried this → Text='<%# Bind("Date", "{0:MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss tt}") %>'> ... But still get this format: "3/1/2012 1:00:00 PM". What am I doing wrong??? Thanks! – daveomcd Dec 15 '11 at 17:30

Ashaar · Answer 2 · 2012-11-23T03:42:29.877

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This should work

Text='<%# Bind("DateOfBirth", "{0:MMM dd, yyyy}") %>'

edited Nov 23 '12 at 03:42

answered Feb 05 '12 at 16:23

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Format Date in Bind Statement inside a ListView

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