How can you show the date in a gridview as a date only instead of a datetime?

Question

I am pulling in date values from a sql server database using a gridview and and the date gets converted from

12/12/2009 to 12/12/2009 12:

Answer 1

You can use a DataAnnotations attribute and a DynamicField control; then you don't have to do the same formatting every time you want to format that field. There is an example showing how to do this here: http://www.asp.net/entity-framework/tutorials/the-entity-framework-and-aspnet-%E2%80%93-getting-started-part-8