Eval DateTime.Now in design time for TemplateColumn

[alsi]

Hi All!

I have a newbie question:
I have a radgrid and inside it I have templatecolumns.
One of it look like:
<telerik:GridTemplateColumn UniqueName="DateNow">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <asp:Literal runat="server" ID="litDateNow" />
    </ItemTemplate>
</telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

and want to evaluate the datetim.now somehow in the following way:
Text='<%# DateTime.Now.ToString() %>' but not working

and what should I do if I want to do the same with a Session variable, for example Session["userName"] ?

thx, waiting Ur answers
alsi

[Princy]

Hello,

Check out the following code to access set the session variable and access the value in the code behind.
aspx:

 <telerik:GridTemplateColumn UniqueName="UserName">
      <ItemTemplate>
        <asp:Literal runat="server" Text='<%#Session["username"] %>' ID="litUserName" />
      </ItemTemplate>
 </telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

cs:

    protected void RadGrid1_PreRender(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            foreach (GridDataItem item in RadGrid1.Items)
            {
                string str = ((Literal)item["UserName"].FindControl("litUserName")).Text;
            }
        }

[alsi]

Thanks!

this is what I exactly need! and what about DateTime.Now? pls give me a code snippet.

thx

[Daniel]

Hello Alsi,

This code should be working as expected:

<telerik:GridTemplateColumn UniqueName="DateNow">
    <ItemTemplate>
        <asp:Literal runat="server" ID="litDateNow" Text='<%# DateTime.Now.ToString() %>'></asp:Literal>
    </ItemTemplate>
</telerik:GridTemplateColumn>

Otherwise you can access the literal control in code-behind:

protected void RadGrid1_ItemDataBound(object sender, GridItemEventArgs e)
{
    GridDataItem item = e.Item as GridDataItem;
    if (item != null)
    {
        (item["DateNow"].Controls[1] as Literal).Text = DateTime.Now.ToString();
    }
}

Regards,
Daniel
the Telerik team

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