Hello Barry,
Thank you for writing back.
I agree that the
RadGridView documentation should explain fully and clearly the mechanism for the control's data formatting. The
FormatString property is universal for all
RadGridView columns and is described in
this help article. The
GridViewDateTimeColumn's CustomFormat property is specific for
GridViewDateTimeColumn and is added for more convenient formatting of the column's editor value. It should be explained in the
GridViewDateTimeColumn's help article.
The
GridViewDateTimeColumn's help article describes the general mechanism for formatting of the editors values - using the
CellEditorInitialized event of
RadGridView. This approach is suitable for all
RadGridView column editors.
Kind regards,
Alexander
the Telerik team
Q2’11 SP1 of RadControls for WinForms is available for download (see what's new); also available is the Q3'11 Roadmap for Telerik Windows Forms controls.