Re: DataBinding.Format still the only way to format Textbox text?

Oooh--that looks very promising.  I shall investigate...  Thanks!

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Fabian Schmied
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] DataBinding.Format still the only way to
format Textbox text?

> I'm coming back to winforms after a long hiatus, and now doing 2.0.
> Back in the 1.1 days if I bound a Textbox.Text property to a DateTime 
> & I didn't want the time portion displayed, I'd have to handle the 
> appropriate DataBinding.Format event.  Is that still the case in 2.0, 
> or is there some new cool way of specifying a display/input format for

> that?

I'm no expert on data binding, but a quick experiment yielded the
following:

Binding binding = new Binding ("Text", _source, "DateTimeMember");
binding.FormattingEnabled = true; binding.FormatString = "d";
textBox1.DataBindings.Add (binding);

(There's also a Format event on the Binding class.)

Regards,
Fabian