Hallo,

 I am new in ASP.NET, i work with VisualWebDeveloper Express 2008 and its very nice an komfortible.

I have a Database and a DatabaseConnection, i can show the Data in a Label (Text='<%# Eval("price") %>')

But now i want to format the string from the database and do something like this: string.Format("{0:c}",Wert)

Now my question: to format the string i have to get the item from the database (in this case <%# Eval("price") %>) in the codeBehind Area

for example: Dim wert as String = price

What do i have to do, to get this specific item from the ConnectionString

thanks for any help 

caspar.net

is there any tutorial that shows me how to handle data from a connectionString 

You can acutally format the string right in the Eval, take a look at this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2d76z3ck.aspx

Basically you can do Text='<%#Eval("price", "{0:c}") %>'

Please take a look at some of the data access tutorial on this website. This should give you an idea on what needs to be done For formatting use this syntax

Eval("price","{0:c}")

caspar.net:

Now my question: to format the string i have to get the item from the database (in this case <%# Eval("price") %>) in the codeBehind Area

No, you can use inline formating as follows:

<asp:Label id=... Text='<%# Eval("price","{0:c}") %>' .......

 Try this code:

<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Price", "{0:c}") %>

 

Thank you all, it works very nice

 caspar.net

 Germany, EU