"George P." <antispam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a combobox bound to a smalldatetime column in a table.
> The ComboBox displays all available dates.
> However it displays them in long format and I want to display them in
short
> format.
> Is this possible?
>
>

"Sahil Malik" <contactmethrumyblog@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> George,
>
> Here is how you do it -
> PopulateDataSet();
> Binding bnd = new Binding("Text", ds.Tables[0], "date");
> bnd.FormatString = "dd-MM-yy";
> bnd.FormattingEnabled = true;
> comboBox1.DataBindings.Add(bnd);
>
> Now, I don't have Visual Studio 2003 installed on my machine :-/ (or any
> of
> my machines), and I suspect that FormatString was a new fangled thing
> introduced in 2.0. So this just might be a 2.0 only thing. Atleast off the
> top of my head, I don't remmeber seeing a FormatString property on Binding
> in framework 1.1, but I could be wrong.
>
> Anyway, thats how you do it. And this is yet another reason I am so
> anxious
> to have 2.0 released !! HEHE :-)
>
> - Sahil Malik
> http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik
> http://blogs.apress.com/authors.php?author=Sahil Malik
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "George P." <antispam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OmwL9mx1EHA.1400@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>> I have a combobox bound to a smalldatetime column in a table.
>> The ComboBox displays all available dates.
>> However it displays them in long format and I want to display them in
> short
>> format.
>> Is this possible?
>>
>>
>
>

"Sahil Malik" <contactmethrumyblog@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:efz3D$y1EHA.412@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> George,
>
> Here is how you do it -
> PopulateDataSet();
> Binding bnd = new Binding("Text", ds.Tables[0], "date");
> bnd.FormatString = "dd-MM-yy";
> bnd.FormattingEnabled = true;
> comboBox1.DataBindings.Add(bnd);
>
> Now, I don't have Visual Studio 2003 installed on my machine :-/ (or any
of
> my machines), and I suspect that FormatString was a new fangled thing
> introduced in 2.0. So this just might be a 2.0 only thing. Atleast off the
> top of my head, I don't remmeber seeing a FormatString property on Binding
> in framework 1.1, but I could be wrong.
>
> Anyway, thats how you do it. And this is yet another reason I am so
anxious
> to have 2.0 released !! HEHE :-)
>
> - Sahil Malik
> http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik
> http://blogs.apress.com/authors.php?author=Sahil Malik
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> "George P." <antispam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OmwL9mx1EHA.1400@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> > I have a combobox bound to a smalldatetime column in a table.
> > The ComboBox displays all available dates.
> > However it displays them in long format and I want to display them in
> short
> > format.
> > Is this possible?
> >
> >
>
>

"George P." <antispam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u3RIM7#1EHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hi there,
> VS.net 2003 doesn't have a FormatString property for binding,
> but it has Format and Parse events that you can use. However it's not the
> bound property that I want to format but the display member.
> My combobox displays all possible dates from one column
> and the selected value(which is taken from another column) is bound to
> another table.
> I want to perform formatting on the displaymember
> not on the selected value which is databound.
> cheers,
> george
>
> "Sahil Malik" <contactmethrumyblog@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:efz3D$y1EHA.412@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> > George,
> >
> > Here is how you do it -
> > PopulateDataSet();
> > Binding bnd = new Binding("Text", ds.Tables[0], "date");
> > bnd.FormatString = "dd-MM-yy";
> > bnd.FormattingEnabled = true;
> > comboBox1.DataBindings.Add(bnd);
> >
> > Now, I don't have Visual Studio 2003 installed on my machine :-/ (or any
> of
> > my machines), and I suspect that FormatString was a new fangled thing
> > introduced in 2.0. So this just might be a 2.0 only thing. Atleast off
the
> > top of my head, I don't remmeber seeing a FormatString property on
Binding
> > in framework 1.1, but I could be wrong.
> >
> > Anyway, thats how you do it. And this is yet another reason I am so
> anxious
> > to have 2.0 released !! HEHE :-)
> >
> > - Sahil Malik
> > http://dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/sahilmalik
> > http://blogs.apress.com/authors.php?author=Sahil Malik
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "George P." <antispam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:OmwL9mx1EHA.1400@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi,
> > > I have a combobox bound to a smalldatetime column in a table.
> > > The ComboBox displays all available dates.
> > > However it displays them in long format and I want to display them in
> > short
> > > format.
> > > Is this possible?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>