Change the date format displayed by the DateTime Field Templates

I need to change the display date format of all the dates in my Dynamic Data app. I'm trying to modify the DateTime field template to always return in short date format ("d"). I don't need globalization or anything sophisticated. Changing the return Literal1 to return Literal1.ToString("d") gives an error"No overload for method 'ToString' takes 1 arguments".

Thanks,

Jim

Re: Change the date format displayed by the DateTime Field Templates

Because you are converting string into date. that why it is giving error

you need to convert like

Convert.ToDateTime(literal1.Text).ToString("d")

Re: Change the date format displayed by the DateTime Field Templates

You will need to do this in the OnDataBinding event of the field template and use the FiledValue property

Literal1.Text = ((DateTime)FieldValue).ToString("d");

Or you can do that using the [DataTypeAttabute on each DataTime field in the metadata.