Hello,
I have a situation where I need to format decimal numbers in a grid to Feet and Inches. ie: 2.5 = 2' 6" I have an extension written to the decimal type that takes care of this, and it works fine. However, now we are getting into wanting to sort, and sum, etc.. I implemented custom aggregates that work fine, but the code is getting more and more convoluted. I am taking a step back, and it seems that if I could just implement a custom IFormatProvider and use the formatting within the grid control DataFormatString that all my problems would go away. I was thinking something like DataFormatString="fi{0}" and within my format provider, I could check that it starts with "fi" and format it the correct way.
Is this even possible, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks
Lance
I have a situation where I need to format decimal numbers in a grid to Feet and Inches. ie: 2.5 = 2' 6" I have an extension written to the decimal type that takes care of this, and it works fine. However, now we are getting into wanting to sort, and sum, etc.. I implemented custom aggregates that work fine, but the code is getting more and more convoluted. I am taking a step back, and it seems that if I could just implement a custom IFormatProvider and use the formatting within the grid control DataFormatString that all my problems would go away. I was thinking something like DataFormatString="fi{0}" and within my format provider, I could check that it starts with "fi" and format it the correct way.
Is this even possible, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks
Lance
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Hi Lance,
One possible option which you can consider is dynamically altering the data. This may be similar to the approach demonstrated in this article:
http://www.netomatix.com/development/gridviewcustomdataformatting.aspx
The same logic is applicable to the grid control - the corresponding event is the ItemDataBound.
I hope this information helps.
Sincerely yours,
Yavor
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One possible option which you can consider is dynamically altering the data. This may be similar to the approach demonstrated in this article:
http://www.netomatix.com/development/gridviewcustomdataformatting.aspx
The same logic is applicable to the grid control - the corresponding event is the ItemDataBound.
I hope this information helps.
Sincerely yours,
Yavor
the Telerik team
Do you want to have your say when we set our development plans? Do you want to know when a feature you care about is added or when a bug fixed? Explore the Telerik Public Issue Tracking system and vote to affect the priority of the items.