Re: DataFormatString is ignored on on some servers

You say it works on VS on your Machine but not on the server is this correct
?

Well, one think i can tell you is that there is a property for the
DataField's on the GridView called htmlEncode and if this is set to True,
then your format string will be ignored completely. It may be that there is
a difference between the aspx page on your local machine and the server,
this is the most likely difference.



"Stan" wrote in message
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On 29 Mar, 05:11, jonefer wrote:
> Is their any particular reason (server or design?) why the following line
> won't work on some servers?
>
> This is code within a Gridview control
> > HeaderText="Regional Target"
>
> This code works on my development machine VS Studio 2005 and Microsoft
> Visual Studio 2005
> Version 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727-7600)
> Microsoft .NET Framework
> Version 2.0.50727 SP1
>
> What I am getting is unformated 'real' numbers... i.e. 0.638354978354978
> instead of 64%.
>
> Something to note is that font weighting like bold or underlining or
> anti-aliasing is also not taking place on this server, although the
> correct
> choice of font IS.
>
> I have a hunch that there is a setting on a server that doesn't- allow
> such
> formatting in favor of faster rendering therefore, less 'load' on the
> server?
>
> If not, what causes the server to completely ignore the
> DataFormatString="{0:#%}" ?

Hi

I don't know why there should be any difference between the server to
the development machine (I doubt it has anything to do with
restrictive settings) but there is a standard numeric format specifier
for percentages in ASP.NET.

Try "{0:P0}" which will muliply by 100, round to the number of decimal
places specified (in this case 0) and add the % symbol.

HTH

Re: DataFormatString is ignored on on some servers

now that --was helpful.

Another thing that seems to work is to set the field as an item template.

"Just Me" wrote:

>
> You say it works on VS on your Machine but not on the server is this correct
> ?
>
> Well, one think i can tell you is that there is a property for the
> DataField's on the GridView called htmlEncode and if this is set to True,
> then your format string will be ignored completely. It may be that there is
> a difference between the aspx page on your local machine and the server,
> this is the most likely difference.
>
>
>
> "Stan" wrote in message
> news:fa7f4d29-bbc8-44fa-9766-cc2613aabdff@i12g2000prf.google groups.com...
> On 29 Mar, 05:11, jonefer wrote:
> > Is their any particular reason (server or design?) why the following line
> > won't work on some servers?
> >
> > This is code within a Gridview control
> > > > HeaderText="Regional Target"
> >
> > This code works on my development machine VS Studio 2005 and Microsoft
> > Visual Studio 2005
> > Version 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727-7600)
> > Microsoft .NET Framework
> > Version 2.0.50727 SP1
> >
> > What I am getting is unformated 'real' numbers... i.e. 0.638354978354978
> > instead of 64%.
> >
> > Something to note is that font weighting like bold or underlining or
> > anti-aliasing is also not taking place on this server, although the
> > correct
> > choice of font IS.
> >
> > I have a hunch that there is a setting on a server that doesn't- allow
> > such
> > formatting in favor of faster rendering therefore, less 'load' on the
> > server?
> >
> > If not, what causes the server to completely ignore the
> > DataFormatString="{0:#%}" ?
>
> Hi
>
> I don't know why there should be any difference between the server to
> the development machine (I doubt it has anything to do with
> restrictive settings) but there is a standard numeric format specifier
> for percentages in ASP.NET.
>
> Try "{0:P0}" which will muliply by 100, round to the number of decimal
> places specified (in this case 0) and add the % symbol.
>
> HTH
>
>
>